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FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC

EIN 46-1979945 STAMFORD, CT

Revenue 2024
$2,805,198
Expenses 2024
$1,796,000

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T11
Classification
1000
Street
P H BARTELS 400 ATLANTIC ST 4TH FL

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).

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.

  • EDWIN MORGENS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • LINDA MACAULAY

    VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • RUSSELL FAUCETT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • JAMES ADELSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • EILEEN WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • ROBERT BERRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • BEN HOULTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $618,904
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $560,634
    Other
    $58,270
    Hours/week
    0.3

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $560,634 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $24,855 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $33,415 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $618,904 related

  • PHILIP BARTELS

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • LAURA SYER

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $441,639
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $378,227
    Other
    $63,412
    Hours/week
    0.3

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $378,227 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,412 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $441,639 related

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,805,198
    Expenses
    $1,796,000
    Contributions
    $297,596
    Grants paid
    $1,783,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,232,446
    Expenses
    $1,803,366
    Contributions
    $162,782
    Grants paid
    $1,783,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,816,509
    Expenses
    $2,610,175
    Contributions
    $15,277,769
    Grants paid
    $2,610,000

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.

Grants made

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY

    $2,610,000

    2022 TO PROVIDE OPERATING FUNDS TO THE COLLEGE'S LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY

    $1,783,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE OPERATING FUNDS TO THE COLLEGE'S LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY

    $1,783,000

    2023 TO PROVIDE OPERATING FUNDS TO THE COLLEGE'S LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 2026, under deductibility SO.

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.