Georgia · Nonprofit
Birds Georgia Corporation
Birds Georgia Corporation (Georgia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,635,018 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($474,730). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $15k
What Birds Georgia Corporation does
Mission
Birds georgia is building places where birds and people thrive. Birds georgia is a thriving, bird-focused organization that combines conservation, education, and community engagement with activities that build community and foster the joy of birding.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Conservation: research, monitor, restore, and promote bird-friendly habitat and important bird areas in georgia, certify properties as bird and wildlife sanctuaries, conduct on-the-ground conservation projects and bird species surveys in the greater metro-atlanta area, promote the purchase of bird-friendly shade-grown coffee and maintain bird habitat at a property in douglas county, georgia. Education: offer educational outreach programs and school programs, provide professional develoopment for teachers, provide ornithological and natural history workshops, hold a master birder course, offer periodic seminars with expert speakers on birds and the environment, participate in various festivals and events to educate the general public on birds and conservation, offer bird walks across the metro-atlanta area, provide support and expertise for camp talon, a birding/nature camp for teens on the ga coast, and the georgia youth birding competition offers scholarships for youth and educators to attend a summer nature camp, maintain an office with a classroom and library, provide membership services, maintain a website with up-to-date information on events, bird sightings, organizations,…
$1,330,022 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,330,022.
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 2021 to 2022, from $859k to $681k (−21%).
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 10% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Birds Georgia Corporation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $61k → $426k.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Birds Georgia Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Birds Georgia Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 Birds Georgia Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 16% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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
58% of Birds Georgia Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
Birds Georgia Corporation draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Birds Georgia Corporation has grown faster than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Birds Georgia Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $184k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$138k
- Department of the Interior$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Birds Georgia Corporation
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Birds Georgia Corporation: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Birds Georgia Corporation?
- Birds Georgia Corporation (Georgia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,635,018 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($474,730). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Birds Georgia Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,635,018 in grants to Birds Georgia Corporation, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Birds Georgia Corporation?
- TURNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $474,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Birds Georgia Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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