Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC
BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Berkshire Bird Observatory Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to promote the conservation of birds through science, parnerships, and education. As a berkshire-based conservation nonprofit, we aim to have a big impact locally by contributing quality data and offering unique educataion and training opportunities to people in our communities. Through collaborative partnerships we are also doing our small part to support large- scale bird conservation efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In this era of rapid environmental change, it is vital to keep a pulse on wildlife populations. We need to know which species are most impacted so we can set conservation priorities. Our focus is on birds. During spring and fall we capture birds migrating along the atlantic flyway and band them at our birding station at jug end state reservation. This allows us to monitor multiple populations at a single site. Our data shows when species pass through our area and in what numbersletting us determine trends over time. We share our data with our government and non-profit partners to maximize its conservation impact. Though data informs conservation efforts, working with wildlife up close provides us with unique opportunities to educate and enthrall. We welcome visitors to our banding station and leverage the wonder of a bird in the hand to inspire a love of birds and the habitats they depend on. Our banding station serves as a hub for field-based research, training, and education in our region. In the summer we participate in collaborative projects to help understand population dynamics of our local breeding birds. We also take direct action to help recover a declining species…
$75,192 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,192.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC?
- BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC?
- Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing