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Point Reyes Bird Observatory

Point blue's mission is to conserve birds, other wildlife and ecosystems through science, restoration, outreach and partnerships.

$932k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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 2025.

Environment$586kAnimals$210kFood & Nutrition$125kEducation$119kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $674,062, the rows itemized in this filing. The $932,491 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,429 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $563k
$33,470
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA FOOTHIL CONSERVANCY$196,149
YUROK TRIBE$125,000
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVATION$123,042
CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES$118,876
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO$33,470
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST$29,733
SISKIYOU LAND TRUST$17,718
UC MERCED$12,546
PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC$10,000
NEW VILLAGE OAKLAND (THE NEW VILLAGE)$7,528
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC: $10k → 14%NEW VILLAGE OAKLAND (THE NEW VILLAGE): $8k → 10%ZERO FOODPRINT: $35k → 10%CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO: $33k → 12%THE AUDOBON SOCIETY - CALIFORNIA: $147k → 12%A&S ENTERPRISES: $89k → 14%CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES: $119k → 15%SIERRA FOOTHIL CONSERVANCY: $196k → 15%SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $18k → 16%YUROK TRIBE: $125k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 10%THE AUDOBON SOCIETY - CALIFORNIA: $63k → 12%SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVATION: $123k → 12%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $213k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$123k · 58% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN GUATEMALA · HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN CANADA · HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN PANAMA

South America$90k · 42% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN ECUADOR · HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN COLUMBIA · HABITAT FOR SHOREBIRDS IN CHILE

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Siskiyou Land Conservancy

The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.

Environment
3
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
4
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
5
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
6
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
7
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
8
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
9
The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy

Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.

Environment
10
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
11
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
12
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Valley Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is The New Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRO COAST AUDUBON SOCIETY: $210,087 · EnvironmentMORRO COAST AUDUBON SOCIETYSierra Foothill Conservancy: $196,149 · EnvironmentSierra Foothill ConservancyWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST: $29,733 · EnvironmentWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUSTDucks Unlimited Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentYUROK TRIBE: $125,000 · OtherYUROK TRIBESACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $123,042 · OtherSACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCYA&S ENTERPRISES: $89,064 · OtherA&S ENTERPRISESCITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO: $33,470 · OtherCITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPOTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $19,897 · OtherTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $17,718 · Other+2 more: $22,546 · OtherChico State Enterprises: $118,876 · EducationChico State …ZERO FOODPRINT: $34,590 · Food & NutritionThe New Village: $7,528 · Arts & Culture
Environment$455,969Other$430,737Education$118,876Food & Nutrition$34,590Arts & Culture$7,528

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORRO COAST AUDUBON SOCIETY: $210,087 over 2y, 65% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy: $196,149 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetChico State Enterprises: $118,876 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZERO FOODPRINT: $34,590 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $17,718 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Village: $7,528 over 1y, 7.0% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Point Reyes Bird Observatory funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Point Reyes Bird Observatory. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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