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Seneca Park Zoo Society

Chartered as an educational institution by new york state in 1957, the society provides education and programming & conservation, fundraising, special events, public relations and marketing, and membership to monroe county's seneca park zoo. We also aid in the design and building of new exhibits and have, over the past 20 years,…

$283k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$277,220
Largest grant, FY2024
$277,220
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Seneca Park Zoo Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$277k0%
FY20234$357k0%
FY20228$352k50%
FY20213$1.8M67%
FY20207$1.1M29%
FY20195$2.0M40%
FY20182$1.7M50%
FY20176$1.7Mn/a
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$9.2MEnvironment$93k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
OR
NE
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seneca Park Zoo Society Development Fund Inc$83,53813%
International Snow Leopard Trust$53,25560%
Polar Bears International$45,52250%
International Elephant Foundation$39,52741%
Wise Tropics Inc$32,728315%
Red Panda Network$14,00011%
African Parks Foundation of America$10,00010%
The International Rhino Foundation$8,00010%
Giraffe Conservation Alliance$7,0001n/a
Empowers Africa Inc$7,00010%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Seneca Park Zoo Society by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seneca Park Zoo Society Development Fund Inc$83,53813%
International Snow Leopard Trust$53,25560%
Polar Bears International$45,52250%
International Elephant Foundation$39,52741%
Wise Tropics Inc$32,728315%
Red Panda Network$14,00011%
African Parks Foundation of America$10,00010%
The International Rhino Foundation$8,00010%
Giraffe Conservation Alliance$7,0001n/a
Empowers Africa Inc$7,00010%
Omaha Zoo Foundation$6,99510%
Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group$5,00011%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seneca Park Zoo Society supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeneca Park Zoo Society Development Fund Inc: $83,538 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetInternational Snow Leopard Trust: $53,255 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPolar Bears International: $45,522 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Elephant Foundation: $39,527 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWise Tropics Inc: $32,728 over 3y, 15% of budgetRed Panda Network: $14,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAfrican Parks Foundation of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe International Rhino Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmpowers Africa Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOmaha Zoo Foundation: $6,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadagascar Fauna and Flora Group: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Zoological Society of San DiegoCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zoological Society of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Seneca Park Zoo Society

How much does Seneca Park Zoo Society give?
Seneca Park Zoo Society reported 1 grants totaling $282,720 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Seneca Park Zoo Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (99%), Environment (1%).
Who are Seneca Park Zoo Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seneca Park Zoo Society Development Fund Inc ($84k), International Snow Leopard Trust ($53k), Polar Bears International ($46k).
Does Seneca Park Zoo Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seneca Park Zoo Society?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Zoological Society of San Diego, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Seneca Park Zoo Society based?
Seneca Park Zoo Society is based in NY.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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