· Public charity
Utah Zoological Society
Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $200,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $367,614 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,614 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Polar Bears International | $50,000 |
| Gorilla Rehabilitation & Conservation | $25,000 |
| International Elephant Foundation | $25,000 |
| International Rhino Foundation | $20,000 |
| Gorongosa Project Inc | $20,000 |
| Panthera-Senegal | $10,000 |
| Snow Leopard Trust | $10,000 |
| Save Giraffes Now | $10,000 |
| Global Penguin Society | $10,000 |
| Carnivores Livelihoods & Landscapes | $10,000 |
| Saola Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $149k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Wildlife Conservation
Stated purpose: Wildlife Conservation
Stated purpose: Wildlife Conservation
Stated purpose: Wildlife Conservation
Stated purpose: Wildlife Conservation
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. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- PBPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $354k · revenue +173%
Gorongosa Project Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $229k · revenue +130%- IEINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +83%
- SOSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +101%
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.
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.
Mozparks initiativ, inc has been established to address and defeat the onslaught on elephant, rhino, and other species of wildlife and the habitat of wildlife in mozambique. mozparks partners with non-governmental organizations, local…
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The International Rhino Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gorongosa Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Gorongosa Project Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARNIVORES LIVELIHOODS AND LANDSCAPES ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE SOS ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRAFFES NOW ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAOLA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
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: Columbus Zoological Park Association · Zoological Society of San Diego · Dallas Zoo Management Inc · Houston Zoo Inc · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc · Nashville Zoo Inc · Detroit Zoological Society · Riverbanks Society · Dallas Zoological Society · The Caldwell Foundation · Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England
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 Utah 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.
- 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.