Illinois · Nonprofit
GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY
GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,483 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Greater Chicago Cage Bird Society does
Mission
GCCBS provides care and shelter for 150 non native exotic birds. This includes parakeets finches lovebirds concures cockatiels parrots macaws cockatoos. The birds are surrendered to us by families animal control police and fire departments or found outside. Each bird receives infectious disease testing vet visit including blood testing a clean cage with toys and a diet including fresh fruit and vegetables highg quality seed and pellets. We also provide social interaction to meet their needs. The shelter currently has 150 birds. We are at capacity. We adopt around 85 birds this year and received 95 surrenders. For every surrender 6 are turned away. We follow the Avian Weelfare Coalitin adoption guidelines.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide fresh fruit & vegetables being fed on a daily basis to all birds within the shelter incudiing high quality seed and pellets for a balanced diet. Supplement of milk thistle, calcium and vitamins are given as indicated to birds by vet.
$13,180 spent15% of program spendingProvide infectious disease & baseline chem, hem testing on all birds within the shelter. Vet visists are monthly unless a bird shows signs of illnes. Radiology may be required to further diagnose the bird especially with ol der birds to determine heart & kidney disease.We have been receiving birds who are older or not have been taken to a vet. Hospitalization and medications is provided as required for treatment.
$67,609 spent76% of program spendingProvide nutritional training and other senminars for bird owners & would be owners to insure proper care. Teach behavior modifications as needed.
$8,325 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,114.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $231k to $201k (−13%).
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.
96% of GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $130 → $33k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY’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
GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 96% · 2022 63% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY?
- GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,483 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $73,483 in grants to GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER CHICAGO CAGE BIRD SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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