Texas · Nonprofit
BIRD ENDOWMENT
BIRD ENDOWMENT (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,481 to it, the largest being The Local South Foundation ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Bird Endowment does
Mission
Bird Endowment's mission is to save the critically endangered Blue-throated Macaw from extinction in its native range in Bolivia. Habitat destruction has contributed to a steep decline in the wild population of Blue-throated Macaws. In 2007, our Nido Adoptivo supplemental nest box project began with our Bolivian NGO partner, Asociación Armonía. At that time, fewer than 100 Blue-throated Macaws remained in the wild, with numbers declining. To date, 164 Blue-throated Macaw chicks have fledged from our nest boxes. With current wild population estimates of 420 - 480, this number of fledglings is significant, about 25% of the population, and increasing. In 2018, the Laney Rickman Reserve was established, which protects 6,000 acres of Blue-throated Macaw breeding grounds. Our Habitat Restoration Project commenced in 2022 to restore the reserve's habitat to its most natural state possible. By saving the Blue-throated Macaw, all species in the ecosystem have a safe haven to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our in situ Nido AdoptivoTM ("nest adoption") supplemental nest box project on the Laney Rickman Reserve is a cooperative effort with the Bolivian bird conservation NGO Asociación Armonía, the BirdLife International Partner in Bolivia. The Laney Rickman Reserve protects the most significant breeding grounds for the critically endangered Blue-throated Macaw. This vitally important reserve comprises ~6,000 acres of former cattle ranches, more than three times the size when dedicated in 2018. The survival success of the Blue-throated Macaw in the wild is highly dependent on the availability of large trees where they prefer to make their nests in empty cavities. However, over 150 years of land use in the Beni Savanna, this bird's native range, has cleared almost all these older-growth trees, reducing the availability of suitable nest areas for the Blue-throated Macaw. To remedy this lack of suitable nesting sites, we aim to increase the Blue-throated Macaw wild population by installing and monitoring supplemental nest boxes. To date, a total of 164 Blue-throated Macaw chicks have fledged from our Nido Adoptivo nest boxes since project inception in 2007. This number of successful…
$0 spentof which $50,000 as grantsConservation Education and Habitat Restoration Project on the Laney Rickman Reserve: Bird Endowment and its partner, Armonía, are taking action to restore the habitat of the Laney Rickman Reserve in Bolivia, which protects the most significant breeding grounds for the Blue-throated Macaw. To provide the best chance for this critically endangered bird's survival, steps are being taken to educate local students about conservation and restore the savanna and forest-island habitat as close to their original state as possible, so that the Blue-throated Macaw and other threatened species in the ecosystem can rebound and thrive. The survival success of this critically endangered bird in the wild is highly dependent on the availability of large mature trees for nesting in empty cavities. However, over 150 years of ranching in the Beni Savanna, this bird's native range, has cleared almost all these older-growth trees, reducing the availability of suitable nest sites. Work on this critical project commenced in late 2022 with surveys to document the remnant forest's current diversity, structure, and composition, an important first step in understanding the ecosystem and determining what…
$0 spentof which $44,075 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $15k (+248%).
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.
100% of BIRD ENDOWMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dorothy Paterson
President / Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $53 → $161.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 BIRD ENDOWMENT’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
BIRD ENDOWMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 BIRD ENDOWMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
59% of BIRD ENDOWMENT'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BIRD ENDOWMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIRD ENDOWMENT?
- BIRD ENDOWMENT (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,481 to it, the largest being The Local South Foundation ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIRD ENDOWMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $24,481 in grants to BIRD ENDOWMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIRD ENDOWMENT?
- The Local South Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIRD ENDOWMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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