Oregon · Nonprofit
EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE
EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $204k
What East Cascades Bird Alliance does
Mission
Education about, conservation of, and scientific study of birds and their habitat, particularly in Oregon.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conservation: ECBA makes grants and engages in volunteer activities, including (1) engaging in projects relating to sage grouse habitat conservation and mortality; (2) monitoring the Cabin Lake viewing blind for damages and providing restoration and repairs; (3) restoring habitat and bird watching sites; and (4) grants for conservation, including trumpeter swan restoration and sage grouse habitat studies.
$1,433 spentof which $4,200 as grants12% of program spendingScience: ECBA sponsors and or conducts through its volunteers a number of scientific projects: (1) The Winter Raptor Survey is a regional program partially funded by ECBA which collects and shares data about winter raptor populations along fixed routes throughout the state of Oregon and parts of Idaho, Washington, and California. The program is carried on by approximately 350 volunteers and scientists dedicated to studying raptors. (2) Volunteers collect and publish on the ECBA website data on nesting birds (including Lewis Woodpeckers, Kestrels, and Mountain and Western Bluebirds) and migratory birds (Green Ridge Raptor Migration Survey, Vaux Swift Survey, Camp Polk Meadow Survey, Summer Lake Shore and Water Bird Survey and Lake Abert Survey). (3) Volunteers carry out banding programs for Western Bluebirds, Kestrels and Pinon Jays (4) ECBA makes bird study grants, including support of a woodpecker nest cavity monitoring program through Oregon State University.
$2,288 spent20% of program spendingAdult Education: (1) ECBA sponsors Birders' Night, a monthly meeting that includes discussion of upcoming event and recent unusual bird sightings, and a presentation by a speaker on birds, birding and/or conservation relating to birds. The event is free and open to nonmembers, with 40-50 attending each meeting or watching on the internet. (2)ECBA conducts bird walks and field trips that are free to members and nonmembers. (3) ECBA also maintains a website and Facebook page to share photos, birding information and resources; circulates a monthly bulletin (The Chatter) and quarterly newsletter (Calliope) to members via email; prints birding checklists that are available free at various community outlets; and funds a golden eagle nest cam website (4) ECBA partners with local libraries to provide birding backpacks for novice birders to check out.
$4,781 spentof which $8,256 as grants42% of program spendingYouth Education: ECBA provides speakers for schools on subjects pertaining to birds and booths with children's activities at local festivals. ECBA provides funding for youth birding education and activities.
$3,000 spentof which $800 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,502.
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 $235k to $179k (−24%).
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.
81% of EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $36 → $15.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE’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
EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
100% of EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10k
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 EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
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 EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE: 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 EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE?
- EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,451 in grants to EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST CASCADES BIRD ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing