· Public charity
National Audubon Society Inc
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $427k
- $10k–50k137 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $999,421 |
| DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | $420,000 |
| MONTANA AUDUBON SOCIETY | $344,175 |
| ALABAMA AUDUBON | $292,567 |
| AUDUBON OF KANSAS | $286,955 |
| SAN DIEGO AUDUBON SOCIETY | $269,835 |
| BUENA VISTA AUDUBON SOCIETY | $236,306 |
| US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | $218,378 |
| WIDGEON LAND COMPANY | $199,590 |
| TREASURER VA TECH | $127,720 |
| TULARE COUNTY RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $123,750 |
| SADDLEBACK RANCH | $102,500 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $95,860 |
| BUTTE LODGE OUTING CLUB INC | $95,681 |
| CITY OF ORANGE BEACH | $94,419 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $1.3M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $1.3M to organizations and $11k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
202 repeat relationships: 123 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 93 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +97%
- AAALABAMA AUDUBON9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +166% · 39% of their budget
- SDSan Diego Bird Alliance9× · 2017–2025 · $938k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- EPEAST PARK LEADERSHIP AND CONSERVATION CENTERone grant, 2017 · $4.3M · revenue -84%
- HHHUNT HILL NATURE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue -39%
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY ACTION FUNDone grant, 2019 · $798k · revenue -12% · 50% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
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How this is measured
265 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 265 of the 474 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EAST PARK LEADERSHIP AND CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Bird Alliance ↗
- Who funds BUENA VISTA AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Birds Georgia Corporation ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Bird Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE CLIMATE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIANS FOR CLEAN WATER AND SAFE PARKS SPONSORED BY CONSERVATION GROUPS ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR THE WATER WORKS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Wildlife Federation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · Independence Seaport Museum · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · The Trust for Public Land · The Pew Charitable Trusts
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Audubon Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Audubon Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
- Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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