· Public charity
Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc
The jacksonville zoo & gardens' mission is connecting our community with wildlife and wild places.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| UF FOUNDATION | $42,105 |
| FRIENDS OF BONOBOSLOLA YA BONOBO-USA | $42,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC | $40,000 |
| SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION | $23,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NAPLES ZOO | $19,511 |
| PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARIES ALLIANCE | $19,000 |
| SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB | $15,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $10,000 |
| RARE SPECIES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $86k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 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 EDUCATION OUTREACH-UNIFORMS/BOOKLETS, SOUTH AFRICA · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR CHICK BOLSTERING PROJECT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR GIANT ARMADILLO - COMMUNITY OFFICER POSITION, BRAZIL · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR COFFEE NURSERY PROJECT - COLOMBIA
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR ARMENIAN VIPER CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SURPPORT FOR CASSOWARY SURVEY - PALUMA RANGE NP (SOUTH)
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 40%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IEINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +70%
- WCWildlife Conservation Global Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +43%
- SZSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +74%
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our planet for wildlife and people through local conservation action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us all.
To protect endangered species.
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.
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.
Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.
To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.
Wildlife Madagascar is dedicated to the preservation and protection of Madagascars unique biodiversity through a multifaceted strategy and extensive collaborative efforts.
Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Global Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BONOBOS ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Sea to Shore Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds RUPUNUNI LEARNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVIAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rare Species Conservatory 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 BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRAFFES NOW ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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