California · Nonprofit
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,362,802 to it, the largest being Fritz B Burns Foundation a Nevada nonprofit corporation ($4,350,000). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 95 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndationshared funders
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio match
- The Deutsch Foundationshared funders
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: 2022 10% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 76 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $1.8M.
18 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 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
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 16% · 2019 70% · 2020 14% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
93% of GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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. Your 151 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndationshared fundersCA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deutsch Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- QueensCareshared funderslocalCA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 184 organizations near you
- Lon V Smith Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Unihealth Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Goldshared fundersCA · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Centershared fundersCA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- S Mark Taper Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- United Way Incshared funderslocalCA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 422 organizations near you
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.
Government funding GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $164k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$99k
- Department of the Interior$65k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
- GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,362,802 to it, the largest being Fritz B Burns Foundation a Nevada nonprofit corporation ($4,350,000). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $16,362,802 in grants to GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
- Fritz B Burns Foundation a Nevada nonprofit corporation is the largest funder on record, with $4,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 151funders 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