How much did ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI grant in FY2025?

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI reported 14 grants totaling $952,427 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI based?

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI is based in OH.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI

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· Public charity

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI

Creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, serving community.

$952k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$106k

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Animals$847kEducation$178kEnvironment$19kOther$351k

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

2019

—

2020

conservation

2021

—

2022

asianconservation

2023

conservation educationworldwideengagefuture elephantswildresearchspecies

2024

wildlifebonobossanctuaryendangerednaturalfuture elephantswild

2025

survivalendangerednaturalbonoboswildprotectprotection

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k10 grants · $194k
$50k–250k2 grants · $178k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$330M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$106,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$72,244
SNOW LEOPARD CONSERVANCY$31,000
INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION$29,000
GLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK$25,000
WILD NATURE INSTITUTE$25,000
WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL$20,000
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB$20,000
WORLD PARROT TRUST$12,581
RED PANDA NETWORK$11,000
ELAKHA ALLIANCE$10,000
FRIENDS OF BONOBOS$10,000
TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE$9,000
HOUSTON ZOO$7,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 56% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATIlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 29% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+67%

Still filing today

87%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther

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

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
3× · 2019–2021 · $156k · revenue +24%
WE
WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL
7× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +41%
GC
GLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK
3× · 2023–2025 · $92k · revenue +3%

Funded once

WU
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $50k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +67%
FS
FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE PROF DONINI
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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

04Your 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.

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

Women for Conservation

Protect endangered wildlife and their habitats

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

International Primate Protection

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.

Animals

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

Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's wildlife from habitat loss and human exploitation.

Animals

Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places. Our field work focuses on rainforest restoration and conservation,…

Animals

Wilderness Conservation Foundation

Environment

Global Nest Exotic Bird Sanctuary

Animals

Linden Trust for Conservation

Philanthropy

Wild Earth Allies Inc

Wild Earth Allies protects vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. We believe investing in locally led conservation is key to turning the tide of biodiversity…

Environment

Wild Welfare Us

To end the suffering of captive wild animals around the world, by uniting the world's leading animal welfare organizations and captive wildlife facilities in providing expert, practical, and sustainable solutions to improve animal welfare.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

17/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$847,232Other$351,000Education$177,545Environment$18,500

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.

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.

Columbus Zoological Park AssociationOH20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Zoological Park Association · Zoological Society of San Diego · Sacramento Zoological Society · Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · Houston Zoo Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

05Through 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: WILD NATURE INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463021940 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 WILD NATURE INSTITUTE, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Zoological Society of Cincinnati?

Find your warmest path to Zoological Society of Cincinnati 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.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zoological Society of Cincinnati?

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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zoological Society of Cincinnati?

More from the funding graph