New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 590 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,074,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($28,302,018). 356 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197M
- Funders on record
- 590
- Grants received
- $131M
- Net assets
- $590M
What National Audubon Society Inc does
Mission
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Audubon has now reached the midpoint of flight plan, our bold and transformative 2023-2028 strategic vision to forge a future where birds thrive across the americas while maximizing benefits for people and the planet. Audubon's conservation programs address the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss by driving impact in four key areas: conserving priority habitats, advancing climate solutions, championing transformational public policy, and growing and broadening the community of bird enthusiasts across the western hemisphere who take conservation action. Guided by science and strengthened by partnerships, audubon's conservation efforts are dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. As a hemispheric organization, we bring our collective power to "bend the bird curve" - halting and ultimately reversing the sharp decline of bird populations across the americas. Audubon's conservation efforts are carried out through its north american and latin american and caribbean teams, each led by managing directors. North america encompasses 15 state and regional offices in the u.s., the canada program, and teams dedicated to habitat and climate…
$159,093,147 spentof which $12,167,696 as grants$12,882,387 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,093,147.
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 2020 to 2021, from $545M to $620M (+14%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 12% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Elizabeth M Gray
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Susan Bell
Chair (thru 09/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 158 funders to 213 funders, grant income rose $10M → $23M.
129 of 590 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 590 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
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
85% 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 NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 26% · 2020 35% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 16% — 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
41% of NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 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
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 47 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53M arriving through sponsors registered in 38 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
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 158 funders to 213 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 environment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.6M on record.
- Department of the Interior$17.8M
- Department of Agriculture$8.4M
- Department of Commerce$6.7M
- Department of Defense$4.6M
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.2M
- National Science Foundation$1.7M
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 NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- National Audubon Society of Coastal Ct · exempt
- National Audubon Society of Sharon Inc · exempt
- Lincoln Audubon Society · exempt
- National Audubon Society of Greenwich · exempt
- East Park Leadership & Conservation Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC?
- NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 590 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,074,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($28,302,018). 356 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 590 organizations giving $131,074,316 in grants to NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC, 356 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,302,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 590 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing