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American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) takes bold action to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. Inspired by the wonder of birds, we achieve lasting results for the bird species most in need while also benefiting human communities, biodiversity, and the planet's fragile climate. Our every action is underpinned by…
- $6.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,739
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $487,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations American Bird Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $939k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $3.1M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.9M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.8M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $1.8M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $2.0M | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Animals$16MEnvironment$583k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iup Research Institute | $1,710,928 | 8 | 8% |
| University of Hawaii System | $1,702,696 | 6 | n/a |
| State of Hawaii | $1,633,926 | 7 | n/a |
| Worman Forest Management | $984,775 | 2 | n/a |
| Rainforest Trust | $615,287 | 4 | 1% |
| Pacific Rim Conservation | $569,815 | 6 | 13% |
| New York City Bird Alliance Inc | $343,619 | 2 | 19% |
| Green Forests Work Inc | $314,193 | 5 | 18% |
| Earthworks Technology Inc | $291,333 | 5 | n/a |
| Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Inc | $262,336 | 6 | 10% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iup Research Institute | $1,710,928 | 8 | 8% |
| University of Hawaii System | $1,702,696 | 6 | n/a |
| State of Hawaii | $1,633,926 | 7 | n/a |
| Worman Forest Management | $984,775 | 2 | n/a |
| Rainforest Trust | $615,287 | 4 | 1% |
| Pacific Rim Conservation | $569,815 | 6 | 13% |
| New York City Bird Alliance Inc | $343,619 | 2 | 19% |
| Green Forests Work Inc | $314,193 | 5 | 18% |
| Earthworks Technology Inc | $291,333 | 5 | n/a |
| Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Inc | $262,336 | 6 | 10% |
| National Wild Turkey Federation Inc | $252,240 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $233,115 | 6 | 0% |
| Jocotoco Conservation Foundation | $216,625 | 3 | 16% |
| Hallux Ecosystem Restoration LLC | $205,254 | 2 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $204,156 | 2 | 0% |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc | $184,391 | 4 | 1% |
| Bull Run Forest & Land Management LLC | $178,565 | 1 | n/a |
| Bailey's Contracting | $178,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Airborne Aviation | $172,600 | 3 | n/a |
| The Forest Stewards Guild | $151,464 | 2 | 2% |
| Conversant Solutions LLC | $150,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildlife Specialist LLC | $142,615 | 4 | n/a |
| Mpj Enterprises LLC | $142,308 | 4 | n/a |
| Carnegie Institute | $141,395 | 6 | 0% |
| NatureServe | $140,046 | 3 | 1% |
| Molokai Land Trust | $136,582 | 6 | 8% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $133,464 | 5 | 0% |
| Columbia Land Trust | $130,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Houston Audubon Society | $120,330 | 6 | 1% |
| Ocean Tech Services LLC | $119,280 | 1 | n/a |
| Jeff Powell Excavating LLC | $114,060 | 3 | n/a |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $112,072 | 3 | 0% |
| Pono Pacific Land Management LLC | $99,683 | 2 | n/a |
| Kahalawai Consulting | $94,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Glacierland Resource Conservation & Development Councile Inc | $90,428 | 1 | 5% |
| Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated | $86,461 | 5 | 11% |
| Shell River Clearing | $83,658 | 4 | n/a |
| Rainforest Connection | $82,777 | 2 | 5% |
| Aesic LLC | $80,563 | 2 | n/a |
| SHAW Solutions LLC | $80,121 | 1 | n/a |
| Fred Phillips Consulting LLC | $80,003 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Resource Preservation LLC | $77,564 | 1 | n/a |
| Riverdale Mills Corporation | $77,064 | 1 | n/a |
| Archipelago Research & Conservation LLC | $64,081 | 2 | n/a |
| Washington College | $62,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Conservation Metrics Inc | $59,752 | 5 | n/a |
| Earl Baker | $59,685 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $57,927 | 3 | n/a |
| Crw Resources | $56,871 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainforest Chocolate Tour | $56,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Taylor Loughry Construction LLC | $55,992 | 1 | n/a |
| Hyperspective Studios Inc | $53,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $51,872 | 1 | n/a |
| Willistown Conservation Trust Inc | $51,203 | 1 | 1% |
| Long Tom Watershed Council | $50,851 | 1 | 5% |
| AR Invasive Management | $50,787 | 1 | n/a |
| Harners Forestry | $50,764 | 2 | n/a |
| Carr's Tree Service Inc | $50,658 | 1 | n/a |
| Paso Pacifico | $50,400 | 2 | 10% |
| Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | $49,142 | 1 | 0% |
| GP Dobrinski Inc | $43,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Reese R-O-W Control Inc | $42,627 | 1 | n/a |
| Clement Equities | $40,935 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Arkansas - Division of Agriculture | $40,393 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Mountain | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The JMB Land Company | $39,759 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildlife Management Institute Inc | $39,694 | 2 | 1% |
| Maxwell United Holding LP | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Mountain Investments | $36,364 | 1 | n/a |
| Teal Media | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keala Pono Archaeolo | $34,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Finn Partners Inc | $34,529 | 1 | n/a |
| Nathaniel Cleaver | $34,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Susquehanna Tree Care LLC | $33,258 | 1 | n/a |
| Smithsonian Institution | $33,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Klamath Bird Observatory | $32,463 | 2 | 3% |
| Charles B Baker | $31,632 | 1 | n/a |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $31,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sweden Ranch LP | $30,739 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesoamerican Development Institute Corporation | $29,915 | 1 | n/a |
| Kco Forest Products LLC | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pure Strategies Inc | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce Foundation | $27,617 | 1 | 1% |
| Land Conservancy of West Michigan | $27,480 | 1 | 3% |
| Hawaii Off-Grid LLC | $27,334 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Chestnut Foundation | $26,519 | 2 | 1% |
| Iserv LLC | $25,830 | 2 | n/a |
| Saving Nature Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation | $24,514 | 2 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $24,477 | 1 | n/a |
| Of Rivers and Birds LLC co Robert Ford | $24,315 | 1 | n/a |
| Smart Nature Solutions LLC | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildmon Inc | $23,740 | 1 | 3% |
| Michigan Nature Association | $23,562 | 1 | n/a |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Prog Inc | $22,368 | 1 | n/a |
| Karen G Elliott | $22,276 | 1 | n/a |
| Island Conservation | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Speak Creative | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Game & Fish Department | $19,500 | 1 | n/a |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | $19,114 | 1 | n/a |
| Ecostudies Institute | $18,900 | 1 | 2% |
| Lomakatsi Restoration Project | $17,448 | 1 | n/a |
| George B Fisher | $17,192 | 1 | n/a |
| Polacek Excavating and Landscaping LLC | $16,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Timber Landworx LLC | $16,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Elmer F Possinger & Sons Inc | $15,086 | 1 | n/a |
| Okanogan Land Trust | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of West Florida | $14,908 | 1 | n/a |
| Oceanbeat Consulting LLC | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Conservation Experience | $13,986 | 1 | 0% |
| Skyhound Internet | $13,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Smerkar Services | $13,596 | 1 | n/a |
| Avian Research & Conservation Institute Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Jarrett's Firewood & Forestry | $12,720 | 1 | n/a |
| Michael White | $12,300 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $12,225 | 1 | 0% |
| Cross W Livestock LLC | $11,614 | 1 | n/a |
| Clifton Ladd dba RainCrow Wildlife Consulting | $11,163 | 1 | n/a |
| Auburn University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Open Lands | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michael E Baltz | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pesticide Action Network North America | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ginger's Parrots Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado State University | $9,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Paradise Helicopters | $9,369 | 1 | n/a |
| The Rocky Mountain Innovation Lab | $9,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Department of Nat Resources | $8,968 | 1 | n/a |
| Conservation Legacy | $8,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Birdability | $8,300 | 1 | 9% |
| Freedom Forestry LLC | $8,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Headwaters Land Conservancy | $8,197 | 1 | 3% |
| Apertures Inc | $8,078 | 1 | n/a |
| The Peregrine Fund Inc | $7,420 | 1 | 0% |
| Martha Birdwell | $7,015 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Great Green Macaw Inc | $6,638 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Osa | $6,450 | 1 | 1% |
| Rio Bravo Restoration | $6,244 | 1 | 3% |
| International Crane Foundation Inc | $6,240 | 1 | 0% |
| Alabama Audubon | $6,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc | $6,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Coalition for the Common Good | $6,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacques Lake Superior Press Inc | $5,625 | 1 | n/a |
| Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa | $5,477 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Lodging LLC | $5,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Bio-Spatial Services | $5,323 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Natural Lands Management | $5,300 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Bird Conservancy supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC43.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About American Bird Conservancy
- How much does American Bird Conservancy give?
- American Bird Conservancy reported 64 itemized grants totaling $3,597,833, out of $6,727,399 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does American Bird Conservancy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (97%), Environment (3%).
- Who are American Bird Conservancy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Iup Research Institute ($1.7M), University of Hawaii System ($1.7M), State of Hawaii ($1.6M).
- Does American Bird Conservancy fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Bird Conservancy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, National Forest Foundation.
- Where is American Bird Conservancy based?
- American Bird Conservancy is based in VA.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home