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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.

$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$644kEnvironment$137kScience & Tech$48kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $116,593, the rows itemized in this filing. The $208,299 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,706 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–50k4 grants · $109k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP$37,093
GIRAFFE CONSERVATION USA$31,500
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$25,000
AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND$15,000
CATAWBA COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY$8,000
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $25k → 10%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION USA: $32k → 13%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $47k → 21%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $37k → 11%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $9k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $39k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND: $20k → 5%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $30k → 8%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $31k → 10%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $28k → 13%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $30k → 21%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $8k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $32k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND: $15k → 5%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP: $30k → 8%CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $25k → 10%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $28k → 13%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $20k → 21%CATAWBA COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY: $8k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $27k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND: $15k → 5%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS (AZA): $20k → 8%CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $25k → 10%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $20k → 21%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $8k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $24k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND: $15k → 5%TREES FOR THE FUTURE: $6k → 8%CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $25k → 10%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $8k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $9k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 5%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS (AZA): $6k → 8%CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $25k → 10%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $8k → 15%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $5k → 17%AFRICAN PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE FUND: $5k → 5%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $25k → 10%THE CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $25k → 10%CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $25k → 10%CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $25k → 10%CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA: $23k → 10%MADAGASCAR FAUNA GROUP: $20k → 10%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

MN
NY
OH
NJ
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $77k 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.

Brazil$45k · 58% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANTEATER CONSERVATION

Sub-Saharan Africa$16k · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: LION AND LARGE CARNIVORE CONSERVATION

Tanzania$8k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RHINO CONSERVATION

Namibia$8k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BLACK-FOOTED CAT RESEARCH

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 11% of Naples Zoo Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 33%.

Naples Zoo Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$895k · 8 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +277% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$895k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+277%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
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
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationInternationalOther
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

  • GC
    GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +96%
  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +561%
  • AP
    AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $47k · revenue +146%
  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • MZ
    MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +132%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Dazzle Africa

Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…

Animals
3
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
4
Zambia Carnivore Programme

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

Animals
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
7
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
8
Zoo Outreach Organisation

Wildlife conservation, research and education.

Environment
9
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
10
Manu

The corporation is organized for the charitable, educational and scientific purpose of supporting biological research, protection of wildlife and habitat management in amozonian coutries.

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

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

International
12
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Zoo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Catawba College. 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

13 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $222,520 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLO…ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC: $59,000 · OtherZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP …GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $224,265 · InternationalGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUND…MADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLORA GROUP: $182,593 · EnvironmentMADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLOR…TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $38,230 · EnvironmentTREES FOR THE FUTURE INCAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC: $80,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILD…THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $46,658 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO A…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $40,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION …PANTHERA CORPORATION: $10,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATION+2 more: $10,000 · Animals+2 moreCATAWBA COLLEGE: $48,652 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$281,520International$224,265Environment$220,823Animals$186,658Education$53,652

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

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
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.

Jacksonville Zoologic…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Naples Zoo Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Naples Zoo Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • African People & Wildlife Fund Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 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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