Minnesota · Nonprofit
ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,430 to it, the largest being WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ($494,102). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Arrowhead Zoological Society does
Mission
To provide close-up animal experiences that inspire connections to wildlife and action toward conservation in our region and around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Zoo services:the lake superior zoological society operates the city-owned zoo through a public-private partnership, providing high-quality animal care, guest services, and educational programming. As an aza-accredited institution, we meet the highest standards of animal welfare, veterinary care, and organizational excellence. Our professional team manages a collection of approximately 300 animals across 140 species, many of which are part of the aza's species survival plan (ssp) programs focused on conservation and population sustainability. Zoo services includes hiring, training, and retaining expert animal care staff; ensuring regulatory compliance and safety; and delivering engaging, mission-driven experiences to the public. Through these efforts, we serve as a trusted community resource, a partner in global conservation, and a regional destination for families, students, and visitors seeking meaningful connections with wildlife.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+57%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 10% · 2021 23% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $201k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 29% · 2021 70% · 2022 84% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
- ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,430 to it, the largest being WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ($494,102). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $750,430 in grants to ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
- WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $494,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing