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Omaha Zoological Society

The OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Animals$8.1MEnvironment$23k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,062,737
Median grant
1
States reached
$340M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$2,062,737
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $3.3M → 12%CONSERVATION BREEDING SPECIALIST GROUP: $35k → 6%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%CONSERVATION CENTER FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL: $13k → 10%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $5k → 13%SECORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $13k → 15%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS: $60k → 8%OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2.4M → 12%MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 12%OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $260k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
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
4
Zoo Outreach Organisation

Wildlife conservation, research and education.

Environment
5
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
6
Noble Gorilla Reserve Foundation
7
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
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
Zambia Carnivore Programme

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

Animals
10
Red River Zoological Society

As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.

Animals
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Zoo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $7,992,558 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION+6 more — $137,500 · AnimalsSECORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 · EnvironmentDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $5,297 · Other
Animals$8,130,058Environment$12,500Other$5,297

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $7,992,558 over 4y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK — $35,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSECORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dallas Zoo Management IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dallas Zoo Management Inc · Columbus Zoological Park Association · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Omaha Zoological Society funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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