Birdability
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862050331
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5127637913
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,889
- Expenses
- $81,498
- Assets
- $94,261
- Liabilities
- $20,006
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maggie Dewane (Vice President)
- Lindsey Stone (President)
- Cat Fribley (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Virginia Rose (Director)
- Maggie Dewane (Vice President)
- Taylor Rubin (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure birding is accessible to everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
We welcomed 37 new Birdability Captains to our volunteer network across the country (and in Canada and Mexico!)! Our Captains provided accessible outings to more than 600 individuals during 50+ events outside of Birdability Week. We provided 20 Trainings and 26 Technical Assistance and Support Consultations to help organizations and communities work toward access and inclusion in the natural world! Our reach was diverse, with colleges and universities, birding organizations, disability services and advocacy groups, land trusts, and other public land entities reaching out for information and support in their work. That is on top of the 60+ individuals who reached out with information requests about adaptive equipment, access features, or accessible birding sites. Birdability provided 26 virtual events and information sessions during 2024 to build our community and provide vital organizing spaces for accessible birding. This year, over 750 attendees joined our virtual + community events during Birdability Week. And our social media reached 28,000 people, helping connect them to our mission and community! We added 265 new site reviews to the Birdability Map, bringing accessible birding opportunities to more birders nationwide through 1800+ Map sites. We partnered with 25+ organizations, expanding our reach to new communities and regions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -44.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.