· Public charity
American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) takes bold action to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $3,597,833 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,727,399 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,129,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $798k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $487,850 |
| Worman Forest Management LLC | $376,603 |
| IUP Research Institute | $281,148 |
| Georgetown University | $153,213 |
| Conversant Solutions LLC | $150,999 |
| Gulf Coast Bird Observatory | $120,579 |
| Ocean Tech Services LLC | $119,280 |
| Rainforest Trust Inc | $100,000 |
| Glacierland Resource Conservation & Development Councile Inc | $90,428 |
| NatureServe | $89,446 |
| National Audubon Society | $81,607 |
| SHAW Solutions LLC | $80,121 |
| Forest Stewards Guild | $79,994 |
| Native Resource Preservation LLC | $77,564 |
| Jeff Powell Excavating LLC | $76,945 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $3.1M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
Stated purpose: Bird Conservation
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IRIUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +113%
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST4× · 2019–2024 · $615k · revenue +78%
- PRPACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION6× · 2017–2022 · $570k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BRBULL RUN FOREST & LAND MANAGEMENT LLCone grant, 2020 · $179k
- FPFRED PHILLIPS CONSULTING LLCone grant, 2018 · $80k
- RMRIVERDALE MILLS CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $77k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecostudies Institute and the most unlike its peers is The Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 151 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds IUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Jocotoco Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NatureServe ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Houston Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIERLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCILE INC ↗
- Who funds Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST CONNECTION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Forest Foundation · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · National Audubon Society Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · American Forest Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · National Geographic Society · National Park Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Bird Conservancy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wildlife Management Institute Inc — 100% of income from government
- Klamath Bird Observatory — 100% of income from government
- Environmental Protection in the Caribbean Incorporated — 100% of income from government
- Long Tom Watershed Council — 39% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.