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Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc

The jacksonville zoo & gardens' mission is connecting our community with wildlife and wild places.

$437k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$2.0MEnvironment$93k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $328,616, the rows itemized in this filing. The $437,145 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $108,529 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $321k
$19,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15k → 10%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $48k → 11%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $19k → 14%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $25k → 7%SEA TO SHORE ALLIANCE: $17k → 9%NAPLES ZOO: $20k → 10%SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB: $15k → 13%PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARIES ALLIANCE: $29k → 12%THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $15k → 6%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $89k → 8%GRACE CENTER INC: $15k → 7%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $48k → 11%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $15k → 14%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $23k → 7%PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARIES ALLIANCE: $19k → 12%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS: $35k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $48k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $22k → 7%PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARIES ALLIANCE: $19k → 12%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $31k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $20k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $40k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS: $25k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $20k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $40k → 14%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $21k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $20k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $25k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $36k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $20k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $19k → 14%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $16k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $36k → 11%SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION & CONSERVATION: $20k → 7%INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $71k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $41k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $22k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
OR
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$39k · 45% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPPORT FOR AFRICAN ELEPHANT, BOTSWANA · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION OUTREACH-UNIFORMS/BOOKLETS, SOUTH AFRICA · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR CHICK BOLSTERING PROJECT

South America$26k · 30% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR GIANT ARMADILLO - COMMUNITY OFFICER POSITION, BRAZIL · CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR COFFEE NURSERY PROJECT - COLOMBIA

Russia and Neighboring States$12k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOR ARMENIAN VIPER CONSERVATION

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SURPPORT FOR CASSOWARY SURVEY - PALUMA RANGE NP (SOUTH)

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
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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%.

Jacksonville Zoological Society Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 24 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IE
    INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +70%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Global Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +43%
  • SZ
    SOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • GR
    GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +60%
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +50%
  • AE
    ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wild Earth Allies Inc

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.

Environment
3
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
4
International Primate Protection League

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.

Animals
5
Zoo Outreach Organisation

Wildlife conservation, research and education.

Environment
6
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
7
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

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.

Environment
8
Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.

Animals
9
Global Wildlife Foundation

Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.

Animals
10
Zambia Carnivore Programme

To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.

Animals
11
Wildlife Madagascar

Wildlife Madagascar is dedicated to the preservation and protection of Madagascars unique biodiversity through a multifaceted strategy and extensive collaborative efforts.

Animals
12
Global Conservation Force Inc

Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $346,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATIONWildlife Conservation Global Inc: $189,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Global IncSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC: $180,250 · AnimalsSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INCFRIENDS OF BONOBOS: $142,290 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BONOBOSWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $87,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $85,150 · AnimalsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INCSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $75,000 · AnimalsPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC: $73,745 · AnimalsTHE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Animals+9 more: $187,824 · Animals+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $304,288 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDAZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC: $190,900 · OtherZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROU…Sea to Shore Alliance: $56,000 · OtherSea to Shore AllianceUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $24,624 · Other+6 more: $62,288 · Other+6 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $225,608 · EducationTHE UNIVER…GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $30,000 · InternationalUS FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC: $7,500 · InternationalMARALLIANCE: $5,754 · InternationalAVIAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentMADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLORA GROUP: $7,477 · EnvironmentRUPUNUNI LEARNERS FOUNDATION: $27,142 · Philanthropy
Animals$1,416,759Other$638,100Education$225,608International$43,254Environment$27,477Philanthropy$27,142

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $346,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $225,608 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC: $190,900 over 6y, 31% of budgetWildlife Conservation Global Inc: $189,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC: $180,250 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BONOBOS: $142,290 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $87,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $85,150 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC: $73,745 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSea to Shore Alliance: $56,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $43,249 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREWILD: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRUPUNUNI LEARNERS FOUNDATION: $27,142 over 4y, 38% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $25,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY: $16,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $15,420 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRare Species Conservatory Foundation: $15,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Inst for Regional Conservation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLORA GROUP: $7,477 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOASTAL PLAINS INSTITUTE INC: $7,100 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARALLIANCE: $5,754 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE GIRAFFES NOW: $5,305 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus Zoological Park AssociationOH24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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