California · Nonprofit
REDBIRD
REDBIRD (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,270 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $367k
What Redbird does
Mission
Redbird is a Native American and environmental charitable and educational association. The primary population we serve is tribal, indigenous, mixed heritage, low income and high risk youth, adults and elders. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, tribal enrollment, socio-economic factors, gender, political or religious affiliations or lack thereof.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Highway 2 Motorcycle Track Days on Horse Thief Mile, Willow Springs International Raceway Motorcycle technical skills events with emphasis on control, turning, braking and managing a motorcycle in canyon conditions. This program began in December 2019 as a response to the high accident rate and death toll on the Angeles Crest Highway, which is the main artery through the Angeles National Forest, where Redbird owns and operates the Chilao School property. The program involves relatively high risk and a high expense ratio, but it also has great potential rewards. We are directly influencing how people ride motorcycles and helping them improve their chances of responding appropriately in an emergency situation.
$9,990 spent24% of program spendingChilao School, environmental, arts, healing arts and life skills programs In 2021 we continued programs at the school with much-reduced attendance due to Covid, utilizing outdoor spaces whenever possible. We did a number of renovations to the school itself, including the restoration of electricity after a fallen tree had destroyed our power pole; new interior lighting, the addition of an electric vehicle charging station, extensive grading to the adjacent property after a firebreak was created during the Bobcat fire, and several "hardening" exterior upgrades to improve fire safety in the event of the next wildfire.
$1,900 spentof which $2,000 as grants5% of program spendingRedbird's 26th annual Blanket Drive and Mini Powwow December 4, 2022 A family style one day Native American social and spiritual gathering, inviting the public to contribute to a blanket drive for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. The 2021 event was extremely well attended and the end result was four truckloads of donations. Used items were distributed locally and new blankets and winter clothing items were shipped via USPS to the White Plume Family for distribution to needy families throughout the reservation's most remote regions. This was probably our most successful drive in the 26 year history of the event.
$2,272 spentof which $1,745 as grants5% of program spendingChildren of Many Colors Native American Powwow, returning in 2022 after a two year hiatus due to he Coronavirus pandemic. A family friendly, public friendly gathering an celebration of indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere. Singing, dancing, drumming, arts, crafts, foods, culture sharing, interactive community and cultural exchange. We were joined by 13 other non profit and human service groups for the 2022 powwow.
$27,980 spentof which $32,750 as grants66% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,142.
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 2022 to 2023, from $371k to $359k (−3%).
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.
62% of REDBIRD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $750 → $302.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 REDBIRD’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
REDBIRD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 REDBIRD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
67% of REDBIRD'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 $750 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
REDBIRD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding REDBIRD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record — $11k federal, $64 state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- Department of Agriculture$700
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$64
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 REDBIRD
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 REDBIRD: 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 REDBIRD?
- REDBIRD (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,270 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REDBIRD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,270 in grants to REDBIRD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDBIRD?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDBIRD 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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