Native Songbird Care & Conservation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810807584
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Sebastopol, CA, USA
Phone
7074846502
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,066
Expenses
$78,298
Assets
$56,427
Liabilities
$1,630

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VERONICA BOWERS (President)

People named in this filing

  • VERONICA BOWERS (President)
  • LANCE GROODY (Treasurer)
  • MARY PIERCE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Native songbird care & conservation is dedicated to the conservation of native songbirds through rehabilitation and release back to the wild, educational outreach, and community engagement.

What it reported doing in 2025

Each year, we care for approximately 1,000 songbirds of 70+ different species. Nearly 80% of our patients are received April through August, the Baby Bird Season. We provide life-saving care to injured and orphaned songbirds seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. Our goal is to restore our patients back to their full health and return them to their free and wild lives. We are a specialty hospital for native songbirds. We are the only wildlife rehabilitation facility in Northern California dedicated exclusively to the care of native songbirds. Most of our patients are received from our Sonoma County community, but we also serve the entire greater Bay Area and beyond. As a specialty hospital for native songbirds, we receive patients transferred to us from partner organizations in 11 other counties from Santa Clara to Mendocino and Sacramento to Sierra. NSCC is known for our gold standard of care and rehabilitation techniques for songbirds. As a diverse group of species, songbirds require a high level of specialized and well-managed care. Every aspect of our facility is set up exclusively to support the needs of injured, ill and orphaned songbirds. Based on their age and species, each bird has specific requirements for care, diet, housing and release back to the wild. Focusing our expertise on the rehabilitation of songbirds allows us to provide the best care possible for this unique group of birds and give them a second chance to return to their free and wild lives.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.