· Public charity
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh
The ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species.
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 1 grants below total $25,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $113,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,694 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Elephant Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Grants abroad, by region — $51k on the FY2024 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.
Stated purpose: SEE PART V WORKSHOP RENTAL · CONSERVATION EDUCATION
Stated purpose: SEE PART V
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +262% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IEINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +70%
- WHWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary6× · 2017–2022 · $92k · revenue +262%
- AAAFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC5× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +525%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +57%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FORESTone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -60%
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.
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
To support wildlife and habitat conservation in the americas.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
To protect endangered species.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Wild tomorrow fund's mission is to protect threatened and endangered species and the habitats they depend on for survival in southern africa. our vision is for a world in which wildlife habitats are expanded and protected, and where…
SEE Turtles connects people with sea turtles in meaningful, personal, and memorable ways. Our organization helps the sea turtle community connect, grow, and thrive by suppoting community-based conservation efforts. Our program provides…
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.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Elephant Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Sea to Shore Alliance ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Zoological Society of Pittsburgh 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.
- African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc — 58% of income from government
- Save the Manatee Club Inc — 2% of income from government
- American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc — 1% 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.