· Public charity
Reid Park Zoological Society
To connect people with animals, inspiring the protection of wild animals and wild places.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $1,420,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,453,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF TUCSON | $1,250,000 |
| NAPLES ZOO | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP | $25,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| PHOENIX ZOO | $13,000 |
| PITTSBURGH ZOO & AQUARIUM | $12,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $12,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY ZOOLOGICAL TRUST | $10,000 |
| GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NZNAPLES ZOO INC3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +31%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society5× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +59%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- FOFuture of Your Zooone grant, 2017 · $110k
Houston Zoo Incone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -2%- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAone grant, 2022 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The cheyenne mountain zoological society owns and operates the cheyenne mountain zoo. a leader in conservation, captive breeding and animal care, the zoo connects people with wildlife and wild places through experiences that inspire…
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Zoo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Panda Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds RED PANDA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Detroit Zoological Society · Zoological Society of San Diego · Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Reid Park 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
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.