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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $235,989, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,990 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,001 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC$25,000
CENTRAL PARK MEDICAL UNIT 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
RI
CA
CO
MD
NM
TN
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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 +15%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc

Madison square park conservancy is the nonprofit entrusted by the city of new york to operate madison square park, a 6.2-acre public space in the heart of manhattan. our mission is to conserve, maintain, and program this ever-evolving…

Environment
3
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
4
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
5
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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Parks Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Denver Park Trust: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDenver Par…CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCIVIC CENT…PARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPARKS AND …+5 more: $39,228 · Recreation & Sports+5 moreNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $132,000 · EnvironmentBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC: $50,006 · EnvironmentTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · EnvironmentDOWNTOWN AUSTIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDETROIT 300 CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDenver Park Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBALBOA PARK CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC: $8,333 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $8,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN QUEENS PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $8,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $8,300 over 1y, 0.5% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Central Park Conservancy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Park Conservancy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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