Delaware · Nonprofit
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC (Delaware) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,405,097 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($430,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc does
Mission
The mission of Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research is to provide professional, compassionate rehabilitation to native injured and orphaned wild birds and contaminated wildlife, and to promote their stewardship through education and humane research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FY 2025 Bird Preservation & Protection Programs: BIRD CARE The clinic admitted 4077 birds between these dates. Over 120 different neotropical species which included over 1,800 individuals. The clinic admitted 170 different species during this time period. Some of the specialty birds that the clinic admitted were: 87 bald eagles, several pelagic birds including Norther Gannets, Red-throated and Common Loons and Dovekies. There were also many state endangered and threatened birds such as peregrine falcons and Yellow-crowned Night heron. The number one species represented in the clinic was the Mallard making up 25.3% of our caseload (282 individuals). The clinic released over 1125 individuals during the above time period with a survival rate after the first 24 hours of 75%. Out of those released over 271 orphans were reunited with their parents or placed in a foster family (non-biological). This includes raptors, song birds, waterfowl and wading birds. Some of the causes of injury that the clinic sees are: attack by cat (202 individuals), hit by vehicle (341 individuals), and displaced from nest (427 individuals). The summer is the busiest time of year and less than 30% of the…
$717,429 spentof which $31,831 as grants51% of program spendingFY 2025 Bird Preservation & Protection Programs: OIL SPILL RESPONSE & CONTINGENCY PLAN Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Oil Spill Programs staff are dedicated to effective oil spill planning, preparedness, and response. The Oiled Wildlife Response Team maintains availability 24/7 and has been able to respond to incidents continually during FY25. The Oil Team responded to three wildlife incidents in three different states and were placed on standby for several more. Oiled wildlife responses involved capture, stabilization, wash, and release of affected native wild birds. The Oil Team has presented at and attended meetings and conferences such as the Area Committee Meetings for US Coast Guard Sectors Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Virginia, meetings for Regional Response Teams 1, 3, and the Caribbean Regional Response Team, meetings for the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition, the Savannah Spill Response Corporation, the Clean Gulf conference in New Orleans, the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association Symposium, the International Oil Spill Conference, Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitator's Association Conference, and the Global Oiled Wildlife Responders group. The Oil…
$520,130 spent$276,540 earned by the program37% of program spendingFY 2025 VOLUNTEER SERVICES AND EDUCATION SERVICES This program includes training and materials for volunteers, in addition to educational workshops for the public. The Tri-State team invests a lot of training into their volunteers to prepare them for their service in the field of wildlife rehabilitation. In FY 2025, Tri-State brought on 46 new volunteers that completed a new volunteer orientation in addition to role specific hands-on training. Between April 2024 and March 2025, Tri-State hosted 149 individual volunteers who served a total of 16,756 volunteer hours. During FY 25, 15 interns trained with our clinic team and served a combined total of 3,744.5 hours of volunteer service. The fifteen interns represented five different colleges/universities. In addition to supporting our clinic team, interns attended weekly lectures, trainings, and workshops to further their knowledge and skills. In November 2024, our team hosted an advanced training workshop for best practices in field response and transporting injured wild birds. There were 17 participants in addition to staff. Our volunteers represented Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland as our primary response area. It is also…
$155,842 spent$3,018 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,393,401.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.8M to $10M (+15%).
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 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Autumn Reiter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $88k → $165k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 28% · 2019 55% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 56% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
54% of TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC'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 $652k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $753k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $254k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$253k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$575
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 TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: 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 TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC?
- TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC (Delaware) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,405,097 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($430,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,405,097 in grants to TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $430,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 45 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