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Woodland Park Zoological Society

Woodland park zoo saves wildlife and inspires everyone to make conservation a priority in their lives.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$102M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Woodland Park Zoological 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
AnimalsEducationOther
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 arriving15$1.0M0%
FY20239$567k0%
FY202220$2.3M35%
FY20219$712k78%
FY20206$81k67%
FY20192$30k100%
FY20187$214k29%
FY201710$334kn/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$5.1MEnvironment$98kArts & Culture$68k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
WI
NY
MA
MO
MD
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.

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Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Woodland Park Zoological Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIdaho Zoological Society Inc: $525,542 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetArrowhead Zoological Society: $494,102 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetComo Friends: $434,848 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetInternational Crane Foundation Inc: $409,759 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetZoological Society of Milwaukee Cty: $409,599 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPoint Defiance Zoological Society: $316,601 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGrizzly Discovery Center Inc: $316,600 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRacine Zoological Society Inc: $315,328 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTautphaus Park Zoological SocietyInc: $265,320 over 3y, 19% of budgetThe Seattle Aquarium Society: $234,898 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Zoo Foundation: $186,410 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwest Trek Foundation: $116,208 over 3y, 30% of budgetDakota Zoological Society Inc: $115,600 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $89,540 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGreater Minot Zoological Society: $61,868 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetInternational Snow Leopard Trust: $59,950 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNew Zoological Society Inc: $56,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetRed River Zoological Society: $56,600 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $54,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program Inc: $24,967 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetRewild: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe International Rhino Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc: $14,967 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums IncMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Woodland Park Zoological Society

How much does Woodland Park Zoological Society give?
Woodland Park Zoological Society reported 15 itemized grants totaling $1,010,390, out of $1,458,424 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Woodland Park Zoological Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (97%), Environment (2%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Woodland Park Zoological Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Idaho Zoological Society Inc ($526k), Arrowhead Zoological Society ($494k), Como Friends ($435k).
Does Woodland Park Zoological Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Woodland Park Zoological Society?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Woodland Park Zoological Society based?
Woodland Park Zoological Society is based in WA.

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 32 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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