Minnesota · Nonprofit
ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY
ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $325 to it, the largest being IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($175). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $325
- Net assets
- $13k
What Zumbro Valley Audubon Society does
Mission
Connecting people with nature, educating people about natural communities of native plants and animals, particularly birds, and advocating for the conservation and preservation of these communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Speaker fees for educational programs, some online, reaching up to 400 people per year.
$575 spent5% of program spendingBookmarks with bird pictures and information, given away at events like the Arbor Day Event drawing 1,000 school children.
$338 spent3% of program spendingBrochures given out at programs and events with information on birds, butterflies, native plants, and pollinators reaching hundreds of people.
$400 spent4% of program spendingWorld Conservation Service which supports MoSI bird banding station.
$500 spent5% of program spendingWebsite with information on upcoming programs and events by the society and other organizations, and information on past events, bird and butterfly counts, as well as educational information.
$649 spent6% of program spendingMOTUS radio receiver system and recording station for bird tracking projects.
$5,643 spent53% of program spendingInternational Festival of Owls, highlighting native owls, and drawing over 1,500 people.
$500 spent5% of program spendingWhitewater State Park grant for bird seed for feeders at their public visitor center, with hundreds of people visiting each year.
$300 spent3% of program spendingWhitewater State Park speaker fee for live peregrine falcon program for 100 people.
$150 spent1% of program spendingQuarry Hill Nature Center, bird seed for public bird feeders, with 2,000 people visiting each year.
$300 spent3% of program spendingEarth Fest Program sponsorship reaching hundreds of people.
$250 spent2% of program spendingBird safe window demonstration at Whitewater State Park, seen by hundreds of people.
$255 spent2% of program spendingEducational signs at city parks informing hundreds of people about the birds that also use the local parks.
$214 spent2% of program spendingCerulean Warbler censusing project and multi-year study by the Driftless Area Bird Conservancy.
$500 spent5% of program spending
The 14 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,574.
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 2023 to 2024, from $17k to $15k (−13%).
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.
98% of ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $203 → $32.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY’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
ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
46% 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 ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150 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
ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY?
- ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $325 to it, the largest being IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($175). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $325 in grants to ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY?
- IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZUMBRO VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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