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Memphis Zoological Society

The MEMPHIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY is building one of the world's great zoos in memphis. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to providing a naturalistic and enriching sanctuary for our animals and a clean, friendly, entertaining, and educational experience for our guests.

$25k
Granted FY2017
1
Grants FY2017
1
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$25,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$14M

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mississippi State University$25,0001n/a

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About Memphis Zoological Society

How much does Memphis Zoological Society give?
Memphis Zoological Society reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Memphis Zoological Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Who are Memphis Zoological Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Mississippi State University ($25k).
Where is Memphis Zoological Society based?
Memphis Zoological Society is based in TN.

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 1 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 2017, released 2017. 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 $50k 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 FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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