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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “avian”
Where the money went
Largest: $130,000 to COLCOM FOUNDATION - CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — powdermill avian research center
Ncasi FoundationCary, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $865,862 to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC — retained structures forestry experiment (manipulating retained structures to improve wildlife value),technical work to improve the science and risk assessment processes in national…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $532,679 · through 2022Largest: $333,723 to MANOMET INC — arctic avian nest study
Bartlesville Community FoundationBartlesville, OKCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $19,600 · through 2023Largest: $7,500 to SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER — the george miksch sutton avian research center (sutton center) was founded in 1983 with the mission of finding cooperative conservation solutions for birds and the natural world th…
Norman N & Gale R Hochgraf Charitable FoundationJefferson, ME
6 matching grants · $18,500 · through 2025Largest: $3,500 to AVIAN HAVEN — animal welfare
Largest: $50,000 to FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC — avian research
Largest: $35,000 to Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Inc — toward avian research and monitoring along the upper texas coast
Largest: $42,504 to Columbia University — impact of climate variability on foreign animal disease: forecasting highly pathogenic avian influenza
NatureworksTulsa, OKCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $50,500 · through 2024Largest: $18,000 to GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RE — study of migratory birds
Largest: $4,000 to INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE — underwrite portion of veterinary and rehabilitation care, medical supplies, and food for the northern california avian rehabilitation and research program.
Wolf Creek Charitable FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
2 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2023Largest: $2.0M to CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY — restricted: center for avian population studies
Tulsa Community FoundationTulsa, OKCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $696,800 · through 2024Largest: $460,600 to GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC — general operations
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →