Skip to content
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

Hawaii · Public charity

Honolulu Zoological Society

To inspire stewardship of our living world by providing meaningful conversation education and experiences to our community. The zoo emphasizes pacific tropical ecosystems and our values of malama (caring) and ho'okipa (hospitality).

$5k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2019
$5,181
Largest grant, FY2019
$5,181
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Honolulu Zoological Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$5k0%
FY20172$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Animals$15kEnvironment$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific Bird Conservation$14,681210%
Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US$11,50011%

Compare Honolulu Zoological Society with peer funders

About Honolulu Zoological Society

How much does Honolulu Zoological Society give?
Honolulu Zoological Society reported 1 grants totaling $5,181 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Honolulu Zoological Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Animals (56%), Environment (44%).
Who are Honolulu Zoological Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Pacific Bird Conservation ($15k), Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US ($12k).
Does Honolulu Zoological Society fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Honolulu Zoological Society based?
Honolulu Zoological Society is based in HI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $27k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Honolulu Zoological Society’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home