Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Congress of the Birds
Congress of the Birds (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,118 to it, the largest being LUCY E HOLCOMBE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Congress of the Birds runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,424 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Champlin Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared funders
- William C Young Family Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Congress of the Birds’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
Congress of the Birds leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 Congress of the Birds.
“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
94% of Congress of the Birds's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Champlin Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 97 organizations that share your funders · funds 238 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared fundersCA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- William C Young Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends of Tracy Aviaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feinstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flynn Family FDN Co John Flynnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilson Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Knapp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David & Betsey Kilmartin Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Audubon Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert G & Jane V Engel Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vincent J Coates Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Congress of the Birds
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Congress of the Birds: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Congress of the Birds?
- Congress of the Birds (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,118 to it, the largest being LUCY E HOLCOMBE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Congress of the Birds have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,118 in grants to Congress of the Birds, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Congress of the Birds?
- LUCY E HOLCOMBE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 Congress of the Birds find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing