Missouri · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,321 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc ($472,602). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC's revenue grew 75% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Trlocal
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio match
- American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $96k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC’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
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 76% · 2021 82% · 2022 50% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
64% of FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $284k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable TrlocalMO · funds 35 organizations near you
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Center for Nature Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Zoo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Health Springfield CommunitieslocalMO · funds 36 organizations near you
- Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Wayne Zoological Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC: 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 FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,321 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc ($472,602). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $787,321 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC?
- Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc is the largest funder on record, with $472,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF SPRINGFIELD MO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing