Texas · Nonprofit
VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,254 to it, the largest being ROBERT J & HELEN C KLEBERG FOUNDATION ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
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.
- Valley Baptist Legacy Foundationshared funders
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio match
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio 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: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of VALLEY 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $56k → $159k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 VALLEY 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
VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 65% · 2019 39% · 2020 44% · 2021 30% · 2022 58% · 2023 56% — 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
42% of VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
83% of VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Valley Baptist Legacy Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Woodland Park Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tj Guarriello Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Zoo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Desert Theportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Wayne Zoological Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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- United Way of Galveston Inc WhitelocalTX · funds 43 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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $531k on record.
- Department of Commerce$506k
- Department of the Interior$25k
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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Valley Zoological Endowment · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY 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.
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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
- VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,254 to it, the largest being ROBERT J & HELEN C KLEBERG FOUNDATION ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $889,254 in grants to VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
- ROBERT J & HELEN C KLEBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 25funders 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