California · Nonprofit
Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc
Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,523 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($169,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $946k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc does
Mission
Through education, conservation, and habitat restoration, Golden Gate Bird Alliance protects native bird populations and their habitats in San Francisco and the north and western portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Communications:Golden Gate Bird Alliances communication program serves our members and supporters with print and online publications, active social media accounts, the SF Bay Osprey Cam, and campaigns on conservation issues. The communications program also supports all conservation and education efforts of the organization. The Gull, our print publication is published four times a year and distributed to over 6000 households. Social media accounts reached over 60,000 people during the fiscal year, through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The Osprey Cam, which features a nest on Richmonds Whirly Crane, saw over 60,000 visitors on the website and through YouTube as the pair successfully fledged three young birds.
$239,996 spent33% of program spendingAdult Education:Adult Education includes in-person lectures, video-conference presentation, field trips, and a monthly speaker series. We strive to develop and elevate conservation leaders of color to better serve their communities and our collective birding community. Secondarily, we aim to cultivate conservation leaders from other underrepresented communities: members of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, and people from marginalized socio-economic groups.This Birding For Everyone Fellowship is intended to nurture diverse leadership within the Golden Gate Bird Alliance (GGBA) community by reducing financial and social barriers to participation in the GGBAs adult education offerings.
$166,822 spent23% of program spendingYouth Education:Eco-Education is Golden Gate Bird Alliances award-winning youth program. Our educators and volunteers bring birds, bugs, and ecosystems to life through in-class lessons and field trips around the Bay Area. By bringing students into nature and fostering exploration through focused learning objectives, we are cultivating the next generation of nature-lovers and advocates.The core Eco-Education program is focused on 3rd-5th graders and provides 4 in-class visits and 3 field trips. The curriculum follows the water-cycle through the watershed, visiting a marsh, creek, and beach. Students are encouraged to think about how animals and plants interact and how humans play a role in the ecosystem.
$116,128 spent16% of program spendingConservation, Advocacy and Other Programs-----------------------------------------Our conservation committees help protect habitat and promote native plant landscaping throughout the Bay Area.
$114,382 spentof which $1,361 as grants$257,870 earned by the program16% of program spendingHabitat Restoration:Our Habitat Restoration program held numerous events including several Earth Day/Month events. During these events, 1,217 volunteers contributed 12,878 hours restoring and maintaining 8 sites including; Pier 94, Herons Head Park, Crissy Field beach, the native plant perimeter garden at the Bison Paddock and North Lake, and Martin Luther King Jr Regional Shoreline Park in Oakland. Volunteers spent some of those hours working with Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) at their native plant nursery on Treasure Island, up-potting plants, and pruning/caring for native plants, including some used at our restoration sites. GGBA partners with San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, San Francisco Parks Alliance, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, East Bay Regional Parks District, the City of Alameda, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to support these restoration sites.
$83,896 spent12% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $721,224.
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 2024 to 2025, from $807k to $3.4M (+318%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 9% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2022 16% · 2023 2% · 2024 6% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Chief executive
Glenn Phillips
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $96k → $81k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 24% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 25% — 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
33% of Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
60% of Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc'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. Of the $376k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc?
- Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,523 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($169,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $945,523 in grants to Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $169,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 38 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