Delaware · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($304,301). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $551k
What American Birding Association does
Mission
The American Birding Association works to grow, connect, and educate the birding community and to increase support for bird habitat conservation. The association supports the interests of birders of all ages and experience and promotes birding skills through developing and disseminating information about birds, birders, and birding. The association actively encourages the conservation of birds and their habitats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach: the association promotes birding skills and provides educational services to members and non-members which include youth birding camp and mentoring programs, local community birding events and festivals, and international tours. The association also compiles field ornithological reporting on bird habitats and conservation as well as listing and avian taxonomy resources.
$533,268 spent$300,454 earned by the program43% of program spendingMember services : the association provides a variety of services designed to inform and educate its membership on the current state of birding, birds and conservation efforts. These include the print and online publications "birding and "north american birds," the weekly, "american birding podcast, and "what's this bird" livestream, as well as online reports and birding guides.
$698,620 spent$216,552 earned by the program57% of program spendingPublications: American Birding Association produces several publications, including "birding and "north american bird's" which inform and educate our membership and subcribers through regular publication of information about the birding hobby, conservation and issues related to wild birds and their habitat.
$35,499 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,231,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $573k to $794k (+39%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Wayne Klockner
Executive director
Board chair
Chris Sloan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $60k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 75% · 2020 59% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $130k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($304,301). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $544,979 in grants to AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $304,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are 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 28 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing