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ZSL AMERICA INC

ZSL AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,887 to it, the largest being THE BAILEY WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$85k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$656k
Net assets
$55k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Zsl America Inc does

Mission

The conservation of animal species and their habitats.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To support ZSL with general operating costs.

    $173,524 spentof which $173,524 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $173,524.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($190k) Expenses 100 ($77k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2018 Revenue 142 ($270k) Expenses 419 ($322k) Net assets 59 ($74k)2019 Revenue 194 ($368k) Expenses 505 ($388k) Net assets 43 ($55k)2020 Revenue 170 ($321k) Expenses 185 ($142k) Net assets 186 ($234k)2021 Revenue 38 ($73k) Expenses 243 ($187k) Net assets 95 ($120k)2022 Revenue 95 ($181k) Expenses 84 ($65k) Net assets 187 ($236k)2023 Revenue 64 ($122k) Expenses 254 ($195k) Net assets 129 ($163k)2024 Revenue 45 ($85k) Expenses 251 ($193k) Net assets 43 ($55k)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (251)Net assets (43)Peer revenue range

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 $55k to $234k (+328%).

$126k
$74k
$55k
$234k
$120k
$236k
$163k
$55k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ZSL AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$113k
’17
−$52k
’18
−$20k
’19
$179k
’20
−$114k
’21
$116k
’22
−$73k
’23
−$108k
’24
20
months of
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.

201820192020
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $125k → $10k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 ZSL AMERICA INC’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

ZSL AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 67% · 2022 83% · 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of ZSL AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

ZSL AMERICA INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
MO
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ZSL AMERICA INC's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−127% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

40%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZSL AMERICA INC: 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 ZSL AMERICA INC?
ZSL AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,887 to it, the largest being THE BAILEY WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ZSL AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $655,887 in grants to ZSL AMERICA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ZSL AMERICA INC?
THE BAILEY WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ZSL AMERICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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