Minnesota · Nonprofit
SPECIES360
SPECIES360 (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,879 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ($44,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Species360 does
Mission
Species360 is a global nonprofit organization that provides integrated information services to zoological institutions worldwide. Through its platforms, the Species360 zoological information management system (zims) and the species conservation toolkit initiative (scti), Species360 supports over 1,300 zoological institutions in managing animal records, veterinary medical data, collection planning, population management, and conservation science. As the steward of the world's largest shared knowledge database on animals in human care, containing data on more than 13.8 million animals across 26,000 species, Species360 empowers its members to make informed decisions that advance animal care, population management, and conservation outcomes. Its tools are used daily by conservation professionals, wildlife managers, and researchers to support evidence-based practices in zoos, aquariums, and field conservation programs around the world. The species conservation toolkit initiative (s
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Species360 continued to serve as a global leader in conservation data management, supporting over 1,300 zoos, aquariums, and wildlife institutions across more than 100 countries. Through its flagship platform, the zoological information management system (zims), Species360 enabled members to record and analyze data on over 10 million animals, advancing best practices in animal care, veterinary medicine, and population management. The organization expanded its impact through the species conservation toolkit initiative (scti), providing tools like pmx and vortex to support conservation breeding and population viability analysis. The conservation science alliance (csa) further strengthened Species360's role in research, collaborating with global partners to apply aggregated data to pressing conservation questions, including illegal wildlife trade and species risk assessments. Species360 also enhanced its medical and husbandry modules, supported aquatic and botanical data initiatives, and promoted data-driven decision-making through the Species360 insights program. These efforts were underpinned by a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and innovation, ensuring that the…
$6,034,260 spentof which $5,000 as grants$6,832,135 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,034,260.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.4M to $8.7M (+18%).
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 2% · 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Chief executive
Jim Guenter
CEO, ex-officio trustee
Board chair
Nicola Craddock
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $10k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SPECIES360’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
SPECIES360 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SPECIES360.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SPECIES360 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding SPECIES360 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $276k on record — $275k federal, $2k state.
- Smithsonian Institution$275k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$2k
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 SPECIES360
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 SPECIES360: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIES360?
- SPECIES360 (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,879 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ($44,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIES360 have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $106,879 in grants to SPECIES360, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIES360?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIES360 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.
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 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing