· Public charity
Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc
The jacksonville zoo & gardens' mission is connecting our community with wildlife and wild places.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $344,077 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $471,348 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,271 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UF FOUNDATION | $67,196 |
| INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BONOBOSLOLA YA BONOBO-USA | $44,740 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC | $40,000 |
| SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION | $22,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARIES ALLIANCE | $19,000 |
| SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB | $15,000 |
| TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLLIANCE | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $10,000 |
| NAPLES ZOO | $9,291 |
| GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY | $6,000 |
| RARE SPECIES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $97k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPPORT FOR AFRICAN ELEPHANT, BOTSWANA · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR CHICK BOLSTERING PROJECT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR GIANT ARMADILLO - COMMUNITY OFFICER POSITION, BRAZIL · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR COFFEE NURSERY PROJECT - COLUMBIA · CONSERVATION SUPPORT TO ASSIST WITH PURCHASE OF ROMAINE LETTUCE FOR MANATEE FOOD
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR ARMENIAN VIPER CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR CASSOWARY SURVEY - PALUMA RANGE NP (SOUTH)
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR BONGO SURVEILLANCE PROJECT - UNIFORMS/CAMERA TRAPS
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IEINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +70%
- SZSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +74%
- WCWildlife Conservation Global Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- GRGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +60%
- JGJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +50%
- AEARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INCone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.
To protect endangered species.
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.
Wildlife Madagascar is dedicated to the preservation and protection of Madagascars unique biodiversity through a multifaceted strategy and extensive collaborative efforts.
To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.
Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rupununi Learners Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Global Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BONOBOS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Sea to Shore Alliance ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUPUNUNI LEARNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds AVIAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Inst for Regional Conservation ↗
- Who funds MADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLORA GROUP ↗
- Who funds COASTAL PLAINS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRAFFES NOW ↗
- Who funds Rare Species Conservatory Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Columbus Zoological Park Association · Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk · Houston Zoo Inc · Zoological Society of San Diego · Utah Zoological Society · Dallas Zoo Management Inc · Detroit Zoological Society · Dallas Zoological Society · Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England · East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc · Nashville Zoo Inc · Riverbanks Society
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- Us for Belize Foundation for Research & Environmental Education Inc — 62% of income from government
- Coastal Plains Institute Inc — 41% of income from government
- The Inst for Regional Conservation — 35% of income from government
- Archbold Expeditions Inc — 9% of income from government
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.