Texas · Nonprofit
Birdability
Birdability (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,142 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Birdability does
Mission
To share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure birding is accessible to everyone.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We welcomed 37 new Birdability Captains to our volunteer network across the country (and in Canada and Mexico!)! Our Captains provided accessible outings to more than 600 individuals during 50+ events outside of Birdability Week. We provided 20 Trainings and 26 Technical Assistance and Support Consultations to help organizations and communities work toward access and inclusion in the natural world! Our reach was diverse, with colleges and universities, birding organizations, disability services and advocacy groups, land trusts, and other public land entities reaching out for information and support in their work. That is on top of the 60+ individuals who reached out with information requests about adaptive equipment, access features, or accessible birding sites. Birdability provided 26 virtual events and information sessions during 2024 to build our community and provide vital organizing spaces for accessible birding. This year, over 750 attendees joined our virtual + community events during Birdability Week. And our social media reached 28,000 people, helping connect them to our mission and community! We added 265 new site reviews to the Birdability Map, bringing accessible…
$66,013 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,013.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $135k to $83k (−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.
99% of Birdability’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Cat Fribley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Birdability’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
Birdability leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Birdability.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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
Birdability draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Birdability's revenue fell 65% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Birdability
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Birdability: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Birdability?
- Birdability (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,142 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Birdability have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $192,142 in grants to Birdability, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Birdability?
- NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Birdability 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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