· Public charity
America's State Parks Foundation
The organization's mission is to promote the value of america's state parks, for environmental stewardship, for health and well-being of americans and for economic development; to energize the state park movement, working in collaboration with state park agencies, their non- profit partners and other allies and supporters of parks,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k22 grants · $270k
- $250k+1 grant · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $272,000 |
| DIABLO RANGE DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND STATE PARK | $15,000 |
| HAWAII DIVISION OF STATE PARKS | $15,000 |
| ALABAMA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PICKWICK LANDING STATE PARK | $15,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE PARKS | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | $15,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE PARKS & HISTORIC | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTHPASS CITY | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| FOLSOM LAKE RECREATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF EISENHOWER STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| THOUSAND SPRING STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| MASS DEP OF CONSERVATION AND REC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +301% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $472k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MDMISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT3× · 2021–2024 · $55k
- COCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
- ASALABAMA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +301%
Funded once
- CECOLORADO ENERGY OFFICEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RPREDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
- SOSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Investor Protection Trust · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc · Association of State and Territorial Health Officials · Governors Highway Safety Association · Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation · American Bar Association · Feed the Children Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · National Association of State Procurement Officals Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization America's State Parks Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wekiva Wilderness Trust Inc — 10% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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