How much does Austin Parks Foundation give?

Austin Parks Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $514,077, out of $534,077 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Austin Parks Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (19%).

Who are Austin Parks Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Austin ($1.7M), Downtown Austin Parks LLC ($420k), Zilker Theatre Productions ($316k).

Does Austin Parks Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Austin Parks Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800, Better Business Bureau.

Where is Austin Parks Foundation based?

Austin Parks Foundation is based in TX.

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Texas · Public charity

Austin Parks Foundation

AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION partners with our community to enhance people's lives by making our public parks, trails and green spaces better through volunteerism, innovative programming, advocacy and financial support.

$534k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $514k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $301,500
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 14; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Austin Parks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	11	$489k	64%
FY2023	9	$511k	33%
FY2022	5	$527k	40%
FY2021	1	$13k	100%
FY2020	4	$301k	0%
FY2019	9	$377k	44%
FY2018	5	$607k	0%
FY2017	14	$802k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.5MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$722kPhilanthropy$190kEducation$100kEmployment$66kCommunity Improvement$46kAnimals$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Austin	$1,733,085	7	n/a
Downtown Austin Parks LLC	$420,046	5	61%
Zilker Theatre Productions	$315,791	5	14%
The Trail Conservancy	$293,300	2	17%
Norwood Park Foundation	$271,565	2	48%
Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy Non-Profit Corporation	$75,000	1	10%
American Youthworks	$66,108	2	1%
Austin Ymbl Sunshine Camp	$60,000	2	2%
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy	$45,714	3	0%
Allison Orr Dance Inc	$40,000	4	2%

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All grantees of Austin Parks Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Austin	$1,733,085	7	n/a
Downtown Austin Parks LLC	$420,046	5	61%
Zilker Theatre Productions	$315,791	5	14%
The Trail Conservancy	$293,300	2	17%
Norwood Park Foundation	$271,565	2	48%
Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy Non-Profit Corporation	$75,000	1	10%
American Youthworks	$66,108	2	1%
Austin Ymbl Sunshine Camp	$60,000	2	2%
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy	$45,714	3	0%
Allison Orr Dance Inc	$40,000	4	2%
Trail Conservancy Inc	$37,500	1	n/a
Fun Time Train Rides	$32,520	1	n/a
Weviva	$32,400	1	16%
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum	$25,000	1	2%
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council	$21,000	3	0%
Hill Country Conservancy	$20,000	2	1%
Pease Park Conservancy	$18,737	2	1%
TreeFolks Inc	$12,500	1	n/a
Travis Audubon Society Inc	$11,296	1	n/a
The Urban Land Institute	$10,000	1	0%
City Parks Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Greater East Austin Youth Assn	$10,000	1	n/a
Tri-County Gravesite Maintenance	$9,500	1	n/a
Texas Climbers Coalition	$7,844	1	n/a
Travis Forward	$7,500	1	n/a
Barton Springs Conservancy	$7,500	1	1%
Texas Public Radio	$6,000	1	0%
Austin Film Festival Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Sustainable Food Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Sustainable Food Center	$5,000	1	0%

Austin Parks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX35.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Better Business Bureau · The Applied Materials Foundation · St David's Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Kabacoff Family Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Austin Parks Foundation

How much does Austin Parks Foundation give?: Austin Parks Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $514,077, out of $534,077 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Austin Parks Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (19%).
Who are Austin Parks Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Austin ($1.7M), Downtown Austin Parks LLC ($420k), Zilker Theatre Productions ($316k).
Does Austin Parks Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Austin Parks Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800, Better Business Bureau.
Where is Austin Parks Foundation based?: Austin Parks Foundation is based in TX.