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Grants for parks and playgrounds
701 parks and playgrounds received at least $19.2 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,243 grants made from 982 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 982 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to park conservancies, and 1% made grants to four or more park conservancies. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$19,201,155
Total grant dollars given to parks and playgrounds
1,243
Number of grants made annually to parks and playgrounds
982
Number of grantmakers funding parks and playgrounds
$1,000
Median grant size to parks and playgrounds
Foundations that support parks and playgrounds
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to park conservancies | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting parks and playgrounds
Parks and playgrounds grantees
Parks and playgrounds with more than $5 million in total revenues received 63% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 34% of all park conservancies.
Grant amounts
| Size of grant | Number of grants |
|---|
| <$10k | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
|---|
| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
Top 25 grants made to parks and playgrounds
| Grantee | Grant size | Purpose | Grantmaker |
|---|
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $4,500,000 | General Support | Stanford University |
| Central Park Conservancy | $3,750,000 | General Unrestricted | Thomas L. Kempner Jr Foundation |
| The Bay Park Conservancy | $3,120,966 | Environment | Gulf Coast Community Foundation |
| Minneapolis Parks Foundation (MPF) | $3,019,600 | General Operating Support | The Minneapolis Foundation |
| Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy | $2,515,058 | Public & Societal Benefit | North Carolina Community Foundation (NCCF) |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $5,000 | Party for the Parks Program | The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $5,000 | Unrestricted | Harper Family Foundation |
| Aspinwall Riverfront Park | $5,000 | General & Unrestricted | Glenlaurel Foundation |
| Friends of Congress Square Park | $5,000 | For Operations | The Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation |
| Bannack Association | $5,000 | Charitable Donation | Liatis Foundation |
| Christmas Circle Community Park | $5,000 | Public Charity | Porter Sesnon Foundation |
| The Loppet Foundation | $5,000 | General Support | Dorsey & Whitney LLP |
| Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association (TAMBA) | $5,000 | Community Outreach & Enrichment Programs | Goldman Sachs Gives |
| Piedmont Park Conservancy | $5,000 | Urban Affairs | The Columbus Foundation |
| The Battery Conservancy | $5,000 | General Operating Support | J M Kaplan Fund |
| City Parks Foundation (CPF) | $5,000 | Ny Tree Trust Greening | J M Kaplan Fund |
| Washington on the Brazos Association | $5,000 | Charitable Contribution | The Broesche Family Foundation |
| Central Park Conservancy | $5,000 | Social Benefits | The Bunny Williams Foundation |
| City Parks Foundation (CPF) | $5,000 | General | Michael Tuch Foundation |
| Houston Parks Board (HPB) | $5,000 | Directed Grant for Unrestricted Operating Support | Houston Endowment |
| Houston Parks Board (HPB) | $5,000 | Directed Grant for Unrestricted Operating Support | Houston Endowment |
| Houston Parks Board (HPB) | $5,000 | Directed Grant for Unrestricted Operating Support | Houston Endowment |
| Friends of Payson Parks and Recreation | $5,000 | Casa Supt | Rim Country Arizonans for Child |
| Pogo Park | $5,000 | Program Support | Chamberlin Family Foundation |
| Fund for Park Avenue | $5,000 | To Aid the Donee Organization in Carrying Out Its Exempt Functions. | Thompson Family Foundation |
Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Parks and playgrounds" category for this page is determined by the "N32: Parks and Playgrounds" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.