Oklahoma · Nonprofit
GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC
GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,128,228 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,293,957). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc does
Mission
The organization promotes conservation, education, and research of endangered, rare, and understudied birds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Captive breeding programs to sustain populations of rare and threatened species.
$1,083,180 spent82% of program spendingPromote conservation, education, and research of endangered, rare, and understudied birds through publications, studies, and educational programming.
$232,079 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,315,259.
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 $6.6M to $5.8M (−12%).
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: 2018 28% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 24% · 2022 35% · 2023 50% · 2024 34% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Warren D Harden
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $921k → $459k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC’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
GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 95% · 2019 93% · 2020 82% · 2021 88% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% — 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
64% of GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $930k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.6M
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 GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC: 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 GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC?
- GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,128,228 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,293,957). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $5,128,228 in grants to GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,293,957 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 20 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