How much does Birdlife International give?

Birdlife International reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,279,938, out of $3,941,495 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Birdlife International fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (96%), Environment (4%).

Who are Birdlife International's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Audubon Society Inc ($5.2M), American Bird Conservancy ($2.4M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($2.1M).

Does Birdlife International fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Birdlife International?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Foundation Dossiers

Public charity

Birdlife International

To conserve wild birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, by working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 20%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $178,549
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,052,213
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 6; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Birdlife International funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & Culture

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	4	$1.3M	25%
FY2023	5	$3.0M	20%
FY2022	6	$4.9M	50%
FY2021	3	$319k	33%
FY2020	4	$627k	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, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$9.7MEnvironment$420k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Audubon Society Inc	$5,240,071	4	2%
American Bird Conservancy	$2,408,369	2	6%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$2,051,448	5	0%
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees	$269,868	3	0%
NatureServe	$47,941	1	0%
Terra Communications LLC	$39,713	2	n/a
Friends of the Nc State Museum of Natural Sciences	$37,303	2	0%
The Morton Arboretum	$14,101	1	0%
Friends of the Osa	$10,997	1	1%
Bat Conservation International	$6,765	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birdlife International 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 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Birdlife International

How much does Birdlife International give?: Birdlife International reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,279,938, out of $3,941,495 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Birdlife International fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (96%), Environment (4%).
Who are Birdlife International's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Audubon Society Inc ($5.2M), American Bird Conservancy ($2.4M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($2.1M).
Does Birdlife International fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Birdlife International?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.