New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC
NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,156 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($439,775). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What New York City Bird Alliance Inc does
Mission
Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy and engagement - nyc bird alliance's public programs engage tens of thousands of new yorkers annually in learning about and appreciating urban wildlife through guided bird outings, classes, festivals, and an online lecture series. In fiscal year 2025 our accomplishments included (1) hosting nearly 400 guided bird outings most of them free and several in multiple languages including spanish and mandarin (2) expanded our "nycha in nature" program that engages low-income residents of the city's public housing with birds and nature, and (3) organized a record-breaking christmas bird count, engaging more than 400 community science volunteers and conducting the city's first spanish language count. (cont'd on sch o)our advocacy efforts work to mobilize new yorkers to make the city more sustainable and healthier for wildlife and for people. In fiscal year 2025, we helped secure the renewal of the state's green roof tax abatement, continued our efforts to reduce bird collisions by championing laws and policies that make buildings safer for birds, and worked to enforce protections for the waterbirds of new york harbor.
$848,566 spent48% of program spendingScience and conservation - nyc bird alliance's scientists focus their research and partnerships on three programmatic areas: (1) identifying causes and solutions for bird collisions with buildings, (2) monitoring and enhancing the urban green spaces and green infrastructure upon which birds and biodiversity depend and (3) studying and safeguarding the waterbirds of new york harbor. In fiscal year 2025, all three of our science programs grew. We expanded community science collision monitoring to new routes across the city, launched a new partnership to study the green spaces in broadway malls, and analyzed the long-term "harbor herons" dataset to identify declines in waterbird populations.
$847,957 spent$696,942 earned by the program48% of program spendingMembership and outreach - we are one of the largest local, independent chapters of national audubon society with 10,000 members who care about and support bird conservation initiatives in new york city. We engage members through education programs including guided bird outings, special conservation experiences and a thrice-yearly print newsletter. We also provide resources on birds and urban conservation to nearly 25,000 new yorkers with a monthly e-newsletter and our website.
$59,080 spent$54,010 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,755,603.
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 2023 to 2024, from $981k to $1.4M (+46%).
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 9% · 2018 28% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 29% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
Jessica G Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $349k → $580k.
15 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
76% 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 NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 44% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 27% · 2022 34% · 2023 17% — 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
44% of NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- Department of the Interior$23k
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 NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC?
- NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,156 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($439,775). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,191,156 in grants to NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $439,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE 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.
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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 52 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