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Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the animals and to ensure the visitors have as much visual interaction as possible while maintaining the…

$208k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$117k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,093
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$45M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Naples Zoo Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducation
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$117k0%
FY20245$101k0%
FY20236$115k0%
FY20226$119k0%
FY20215$90k0%
FY20205$90k20%
FY20196$104k50%
FY20189$148k44%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$644kEnvironment$137kScience & Tech$48kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OH
NJ
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Naples Zoo Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGiraffe Conservation Foundation USA: $224,265 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $222,520 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMadagascar Fauna and Flora Group: $182,593 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetAfrican People & Wildlife Fund Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetZoo Conservation Outreach Group Inc: $59,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCatawba College: $48,652 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTrees for the Future Inc: $38,230 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Zoo Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Jacksonville Zoological Society IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Naples Zoo Inc

How much does Naples Zoo Inc give?
Naples Zoo Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $116,593, out of $208,299 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Naples Zoo Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (76%), Environment (16%), Science & Tech (6%).
Who are Naples Zoo Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Giraffe Conservation Foundation USA ($224k), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($223k), Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group ($183k).
Does Naples Zoo Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Naples Zoo Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Naples Zoo Inc based?
Naples Zoo Inc is based in FL.

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 13 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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