Illinois · Nonprofit
ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE
ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,530 to it, the largest being CLAYTON A STRUVE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Zoo & Aquarium Video Archive does
Mission
The Zoo & Aquarium Video Archive aims to show the traits and triumphs of the zoological profession through the accounts of the pioneers who made that history possible. These professionals took the modern zoo from cages and concrete to environments sensitive to the needs and wants of the animals. The power that comes from listening to someone speak, to see their face, watch their expressions, hear their stories firsthand is something that connot be duplicated. To preserve these extraordinary links to the past for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Visits to website disseminating historical knowledge to current professionals in the zoological community.
$35,001 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,001.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE’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
ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
90% of ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE: 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 ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE?
- ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,530 to it, the largest being CLAYTON A STRUVE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,530 in grants to ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE?
- CLAYTON A STRUVE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZOO & AQUARIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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