Connecticut · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC (Connecticut) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,880,893 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($3,037,600). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Connecticut Zoological Societyinc does
Mission
The society is dedicated to acquainting a diverse public to the delicate balance that exists between living things and their environment. Animal exhibits, plantings, graphics, and zoo programs are represented in such a manner as to give the visitor a sense of awareness and concern for the intricate beauty and fragility of our planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The society operates the beardsley zoological gardens and educates youth and the public in general regarding the world's flora and fauna. Approximately 39,508 youth attended educational programs and 280,179 visitors visited the zoo in 2023.
$2,825,165 spent$2,190,138 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,825,165.
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 $12M to $17M (+44%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 19% · 2021 51% · 2022 4% · 2023 6% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC’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. 0 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 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $66k → $1.9M.
12 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 34% · 2019 51% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 81% — 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
43% of CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
85% of CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $905k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: 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 CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC?
- CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC (Connecticut) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,880,893 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($3,037,600). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,880,893 in grants to CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,037,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 53 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