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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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$370kEducation$39kEnvironment$16kScience & Tech$10kHuman Services$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $66,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,486 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,125 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County$20,861
Florida Audubon Society Inc$15,500
Association of Zoos & Acquariums$10,000
Pelican Harbor Seabird Station$10,000
University of Florida$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Shape of Enrichment: $5k → 8%Wildlife Conservation Network: $15k → 10%Wildlife Conservation Society: $100k → 28%Conservation Centers for Species Survival: $8k → 9%International Iguana Foundation: $9k → 11%Florida Association of Zoos and Aquariums Inc: $10k → 10%Save the Manatee Club: $15k → 11%Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc: $10k → 11%Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County: $21k → 15%Critical Tech Solutions: $7k → 12%Cheetah Conservation Fund: $7k → 9%Association Of Zoos & Aquariums: $8k → 8%WILDLIFE RESCUE OF DADE COUNTY: $10k → 15%Wildlife Rescue Of Dade County: $7k → 15%Audubon Florida: $51k → 15%Florida Audubon Society Inc: $16k → 15%Florida Audubon Society Inc: $6k → 15%Florida National Parks Assocation Inc: $10k → 15%Audubon Florida: $40k → 15%Pelican Harbor Seabird Station: $27k → 15%Pelican Harbor Seabird Station: $10k → 15%Pelican Harbor Seabirds Station: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Grants abroad, by region: $17k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$10k · 61% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Conservation of roaming cheetahs

South America$7k · 39% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Support for iguana conservation

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 5 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$147k
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+20%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsScience & TechEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +33%
  • WR
    WILDLIFE RESCUE OF DADE COUNTY INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +48%
  • FA
    FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
2
Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Avian Conservation Center

To identify and address vital environmental issues by providing medical care to injured birds of prey and shorebirds, and through educational, research and conservation initiatives.

Animals
5
International Wildlife Trust

Iwt is committed to combatting both the causes and effects of illegal wildlife trafficking by focusing on transnational organized crime groups who have escaped the consequences of their criminal activities to date.

Animals
6
The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc

The zoological society of the palm beaches, inc. exists to inspire people to act on behalf of wildlife and the natural world. we advance our conservation mission through endangered species propagation, education and support of conservation…

Animals
7
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
8
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment
9
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The florida aquarium's mission focuses on our shared purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a vision to be florida's leading conservation-based aquarium. (continued on schedule o)

Animals
10
Waterbird Society

The waterbird society is composed of biologists, researchers, conservationists, students, and others interested in the behavior, ecology, and conservation of waterbirds. the organization is administered by officers and council members…

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11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
Wildlands Conservation Inc

Preservation of the environment through ecological research to preserve our national heritage

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Audubon Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietyPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $47,154 · AnimalsPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INCWILDLIFE RESCUE OF DADE COUNTY INC: $37,958 · AnimalsWILDLIFE RESCUE OF DADE COUNTY INCSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $15,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCTHE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $9,300 · Animals+4 more: $28,313 · Animals+4 moreIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFlorida International University Board of Trustees: $32,451 · OtherFlorida International Universi…Association of Zoos and Acquariums: $25,000 · OtherAssociation of Zoos and Acquar…UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $15,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AN…Florida International University: $8,333 · OtherFlorida International Universi…Individual grant recipient: $6,697 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $50,750 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON…FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $21,500 · EnvironmentFLORIDA AUDUBON …FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationFLORIDA NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $9,900 · Science & Tech
Animals$252,725Other$137,881Environment$72,250Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Science & Tech$9,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $50,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $47,154 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE OF DADE COUNTY INC: $37,958 over 3y, 21% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $9,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL IGUANA FOUNDATION: $9,300 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL: $8,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $7,898 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $6,985 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAPE OF ENRICHMENT INC: $5,430 over 1y, 10% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zoo Miami Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zoo Miami Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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