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Delaware · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION (Delaware) is funded by 27 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $306,926 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($101,481). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 154 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 154 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
60% of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
$2k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $10k and 1 in 2017.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 77% · 2020 60% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% · 2024 21% · 2025 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
40% of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 374 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
69% of spending goes to programs.
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing