Washington · Nonprofit
TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE
TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,291 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($203,672). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Tahoma Bird Alliance does
Mission
To protect birds and other wildlife through education habitat protection and environmental advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conserve restore and steward irreplaceable natural resources throughout Pierce County. We do this through; restoring Urban Habitats through volunteer stewardship activities at Adriana Hess Wetland Park and Thelma Gilmur Park protecting Biodiversity Management Areas BMAs across Pierce County; engaging volunteers in Citizen Science projects and other conservation activities.
$138,336 spent75% of program spendingDeveloping and offering year-round family based nature education programs to involve youth family and seniors in the discovery and protection of native habitat throughout Pierce County. Hold virtual and in person community events and workshops to help engage and inform our community on key environmental needs.
$42,758 spent23% of program spendingConnecting people with nature through membership activities including field trips membership programs bi-monthly print newsletter two monthly electronic Newsletters and social media and print media materials.
$2,821 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,915.
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 $158k to $90k (−43%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Suzanne Harkness
Current Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $52k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE’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
TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 77% · 2019 56% · 2020 83% · 2021 69% · 2022 95% · 2023 45% — 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
80% of TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
73% of TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE'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 $89k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k 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
TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $325k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE: 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 TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE?
- TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,291 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($203,672). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $325,291 in grants to TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE?
- GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $203,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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