Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by AMERICAN SONGBIRD MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY.
What the amendment changed
Compared with the return it replaced , filed 17 November 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.
Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $638,110
- Total expenses
- $1,552,547
- Contributions and grants received
- $99,000
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $539,110
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $16,348,480
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $16,348,480
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,552,547
- Management and general expenses
- $0
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,552,547
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$99,000
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$99,000
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2a · Program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2d · Program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2e · Program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $539,110 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6a · Gross rents
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6b · Less rental expenses
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$0
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9b · Gaming: direct expenses
$0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$0
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11b · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11c · Other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $540 · program services $540 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $21,500 · program services $21,500 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $220 · program services $220 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Bird Sanctuary Acquisition Exp: land cost, closing costs
total $1,530,287 · program services $1,530,287 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $8,786,047 · end of year $7,772,610
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$8,575,870
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $6,956,870 · end of year $8,575,870
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $15,742,917 · end of year $16,348,480
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Protect restore create and maintain native songbird habitat including fee simple or conservation easement ownership of real property and donations to and trades with other nonprofits with similar goals. Research survey monitor and manage songbird populations and their breeding biology with an emphasis on the recovery re-expansion and reintroduction of rare declining threatened and endangered songbirds but including all avian species. Remove non-native parasitic brown-headed cowbirds primarily through topical trapping to protect native songbirds.
Activities or mission (Part I)
American Songbirds 2024 most significant activities were: 1. Continuing research on endangered songbirds in the Southwest by partnering with Ventura Audubon Society on the 5th year of a 2020 - 2024 National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Grant in CA: funding 2024 Contractor to remove non-native parasitic brown-headed cowbirds in Santa Barbara County. 2. Protection of native songbird habitat including continued acquisitions of bird sanctuaries in MI focusing on the most threatened coastal areas watershed parcels wildlife corridors and parcels contiguous to current sanctuaries.
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Coastal Conservation Lake Superior CC LS: Donation contributed by a Nonprofit 501c3s targeted to help protect keystone properties within several Coastal Conservation Areas on Lake Superior. The natural lands protected lie on the coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula an area that is nationally known to ornithologists especially for nesting wood warblers and large numbers of migrating birds songbirds raptors ducks geese and shorebirds. The lands along the lakeshore are the most threatened by development and all contributions received were designated for new acquisitions that linked to already protected natural areas thereby creating landscape level protection including continuous corridors of native habitat for birds and other wildlife. Expenses include closing costs on a land trade with non cash contribution in part to American Songbird 83 acres Deed title insurance prorated CFR taxes; see also 4b.
Expenses $2,442
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Four Bird Sanctuaries were acquired through purchase or trade 1,103 acres 800 feet of Lake Superior Shore: REVI Phase III 80 acres acquired in trade land swap for EVGR 80 acres adds to 2022-23 REVI Phases I & II 42 acres; now total of 122 acres Northern Waterthrush NOWA 83 acres 800 + - feet of shoreline acquired in trade for EVGR 240 acres $99,000 non cash contribution by nonprofit seller as part of Bargain Trade to American Songbird; see 4a. above FB 40 acres purchased and Phillipsville 900 acres purchased. Expenses include acquisition costs of the Sanctuaries including cost of land and closing costs; trades were closing costs only with NOWA trade cost in 4a above,
Expenses $1,528,605
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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant NFWF G Ventura Audubon Society VAS: American Songbird partnered with VAS on National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant #67287 Least Bells Vireo Range Expansion Surveys CA. NFWF funded focused Least Bells Vireo Vireo bellii pusillus Vireo LBVI surveys and nest monitoring in native willow-dominated riparian habitat on the Central Coast of CA spring 2024 while American Songbird conducted non-native cowbird trapping and removal adjacent to LBVI nesting territories in Santa Barbara County in 2024. The 2024 Grant and Partnership built upon work conducted 2020-2023. Expenses include Fees for Services for Contracting the field work.
Expenses $21,500
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Susan K Lafferty
Secretary Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Art Davenport
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Randee Smitth
Vice-chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jordy Kellogg
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeff Steinman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 22 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.1
- Source object
- 202612659349300101
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