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ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC
Zoo Miami Foundation's mission is to inspire people to preserve nature and motivate others to join us through community engagement, fundraising, and building relationships.
$274k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
4
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Animals$222kEnvironment$57kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$10kScience & Tech$10kOther$118k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
interpretive educationaleducational materialpurchaseconservation
2022
conservation
2023
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2024
conservation
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Wildlife Conservation Society$100,000
- Association of Zoos and Acquariums$15,000
- Save the Manatee Club$15,000
- International Iguana Foundation$9,300
- Conservation Centers for Species Survival$8,000
- Florida Audubon Society Inc$6,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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International Wildlife
The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…
Environment
2
Society for Conservation Biology
To advance the science and practice of conserving earth's biological diversity.
Environment
3
The Wildlife Society
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Animals
4
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
5
Women for Conservation
Protect endangered wildlife and their habitats
Environment
6
Global Wildlife Trust Inc
Global wildlife trust is dedicated to broadening human understanding of the animal world through immersion in naturalistic recreations and educational programs using live animals both on site and in the community.
Animals
7
Arizona Center for Nature Conservation
The arizona center for nature conservation (acnc) advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.
Animals
8
American society of animal sci
To discover, disseminate and apply knowledge for sustainable use of animals for food and other human needs
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9
American Conservation Association
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10
Coastal Conservation Association
Protection of the marine, animal and plant life and resources of the coastal areas of the united states, both onshore and offshore, for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. such objectives will be accomplished by: (a)…
Environment
11
Coastwatch Wildlife Society
Science & Tech
12
Alaska Wildlife Conservation
Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Audubon Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Association of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Animals$221,864Other$117,881Environment$56,750Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Science & Tech$9,900
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 Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Audubon Florida ↗
- Who funds Pelican Harbor Seabirds Station ↗
- Who funds Florida International University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County ↗
- Who funds Save the Manatee Club ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Network ↗
- Who funds Florida National Parks Assocation Inc ↗
- Who funds Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds International Iguana Foundation ↗
- Who funds Conservation Centers for Species Survival ↗
- Who funds Association Of Zoos & Aquariums ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds Florida Audubon Society Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shape of Enrichment ↗
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.
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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 organisation ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 650631553 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Zoo Miami Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Zoo Miami Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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