- Revenue 2024
- $638,110
- Expenses 2024
- $1,552,547
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D32
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 2869 US HWY 41
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
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.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $638,110
- Expenses
- $1,552,547
- Contributions
- $99,000
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $638,110
- Expenses
- $1,552,547
- Contributions
- $99,000
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $762,872
- Expenses
- $4,644,120
- Contributions
- $700,202
- Grants paid
- $35,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $74,998
- Expenses
- $4,684,230
- Contributions
- $74,998
- Grants paid
- $2,755,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $184,998
- Expenses
- $4,684,230
- Contributions
- $184,998
- Grants paid
- $2,755,000
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $23,017,383
- Expenses
- $5,047,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,004,727
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $23,017,383
- Expenses
- $5,047,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,004,727
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $23,017,383
- Expenses
- $5,047,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,004,727
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020
- Tax period
- 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
- Principal officer
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Tatyana Kalani
- Mailing address
- PO Box 2Ahmeek MI 49901
- Website
- www.americansongbirdrecovery.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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Superior Watershed Partnership
$2,750,000
2022 Land Conservation
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Superior Watershed Partnership
$35,000
2023 Land Conservation
Grants received
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2023 VIREO SURVEYS IN CA DESERT & VALLEY RIPARIAN ZONES
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.