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Central Park Conservancy Inc

Organization's mission: the central park conservancy oversees all aspects of the care, maintenance and restoration of new york's most iconic public space, central park.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.1MArts & Culture$529kEnvironment$359kCommunity Improvement$325kHealth$215kPhilanthropy$125kPublic Benefit$25kFood & Nutrition$18k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $235,989 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$727M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYC DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION$91,638
THE PUBLIC THEATER$49,570
CENTRAL PARK MEDICAL UNIT INC$25,000
CITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC$25,000
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS$20,000
NEW YORK CHAPTER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS$10,600
THE CORBIN HILL FOOD PROJECT$9,000
HISTORIC HOUSE TRUST OF NEW YORK CITY$5,181
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN QUEENS PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
RI
CA
CO
MD
NM
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DC
OK
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 12 repeat orgs$986k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
32

Total granted

$3.6M
$986k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+33%

Still filing today

92%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $409k · revenue +33%
  • CP
    Central Park Medical Unit Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +63% · 28% of their budget
  • CITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • NA
    NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $132k · revenue -26%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Corporation

The battery park city parks conservancy's mission is to manage, maintain, operate, repair, preserve and program activities to a world class standard for the residential parks, open space, and other public structures located on the 92 acre…

Recreation & Sports
2
Greenbelt Conservancy Inc

The Greenbelt Conservancy (the "Greenbelt"), the second of New York City's Flagship Parks, consists of over 2,800 acres of public and privatge land (greater than the combined acreage of Central Park and Prospect Park) in the center of…

Environment
3
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
4
Randall's Island Park Alliance Inc

The randall's island park alliance, inc. (ripa) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with the city of new york and local communities to provide an innovative and exciting destination through a wide range of sports venues,…

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5
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
6
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc

The mission of the conservancy is to restore, maintain, and improve riverside park

Environment
7
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Corporation

The mission of the alliance for flushing meadows corona park is to support nyc parks to preserve, maintain, and improve flushing meadows corona park for the benefit and use of the surrounding communities and all new yorkers.

Environment
10
Carl Schurz Park Conservancy Inc

The mission of carl schurz park conservancy is to restore and beautify carl schurz park, complementing the efforts of the new york city department of parks and recreation. our goal is to enhance the public's enjoyment and involement in the…

Recreation & Sports
11
Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy
Community Improvement
12
Washington Square Park Conservancy Inc

Wspc provides funds to nyc parks department to support staffing and supplies for washington square park.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Parks Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,714

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — $2,436,735 · OtherNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONNEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS — $165,000 · OtherNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS+10 more — $198,400 · Other+10 moreNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $409,141 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHA…Rockaway Artists Alliance — $40,000 · Arts & CultureRockaway Art…MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $38,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF TH…CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC — $145,918 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS…CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $71,633 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS…GOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE — $31,250 · Recreation & SportsGOVERNORS …OLMSTED NETWORK INC — $30,181 · Recreation & SportsOLMSTED NE…DETROIT 300 CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT 30…PARKS AND PEOPLE INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPARKS AND …CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCIVIC CENT…Denver Park Trust — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDenver Par…+5 more — $39,228 · Recreation & Sports+5 moreNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $132,000 · EnvironmentBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC — $50,006 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentDOWNTOWN AUSTIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $12,500 · Environment+3 more — $23,234 · EnvironmentCentral Park Medical Unit Inc — $200,000 · HealthFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORSPACE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $8,300 · Community Improvement
Other$3,050,135Arts & Culture$522,641Recreation & Sports$418,210Environment$307,740Health$200,000Philanthropy$125,000Community Improvement$33,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $409,141 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Medical Unit Inc — $200,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS — $165,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC — $145,918 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $132,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $71,633 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC — $50,006 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Society of Landscape Architects — $45,350 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetRockaway Artists Alliance — $40,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $38,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE — $31,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOLMSTED NETWORK INC — $30,181 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetDETROIT 300 CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBALBOA PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDenver Park Trust — $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CORBIN HILL FOOD PROJECT INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Upstate Chapter ASLA Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC — $8,651 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $8,641 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $8,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC — $8,333 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $8,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN QUEENS PARK ASSOCIATION INC — $8,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $7,671 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Park Alliance Corp — $6,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

City Parks Foundation…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Achelis & Bodman …Pinkerton FoundationNational Fish and Wil…The Nature ConservancyThe New York Communit…The Ralph E Ogden Fou…Leon Levy FoundationThe Ford Foundation
City Parks Foundation IncNY26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: City Parks Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Pinkerton Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The New York Community Trust · The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc · Leon Levy Foundation · The Ford Foundation

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 Central Park Conservancy Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Central Park Conservancy Inc?

Find your warmest path to Central Park Conservancy Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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