Virginia · Nonprofit
ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED
ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $164 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($164). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $164
- Net assets
- $840k
What Zoological Association of America Incorporated does
Mission
Our mission is to promote the responsible ownership, management, and propagation of animals in both private and public domains through professional standards in husbandry, animal care, safety, and ethics. This is accomplished by supporting and promoting education, establishing best practices for animal care, and providing financial assistance to wildlife conservancies and conservation entities internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided accreditation services and wildlife conservation education; mentoring zoological institutions in best practices in zoological management and care and husbandry of capitive wild animals.
$590,023 spent58% of program spendingEstablishing and maintaining cooperative breeding programs to maintain a healthy captive population of wild animals that serves as a genetic resevoir; held meetings and conferences to disseminate best practives for all aspects of zoological management.
$351,280 spent35% of program spendingProvided in situ conservation grants for field programs supporting wild animals and their habitats.
$69,000 spentof which $69,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,010,303.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $714k to $844k (+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.
47% of ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Betsy B Bethel
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $53 → $37.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164 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
ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED has grown faster than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: 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 ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED?
- ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $164 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($164). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $164 in grants to ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 1 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