· Public charity
City Parks Foundation Inc
City parks foundation is dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building and education programs for all new yorkers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 81 grants below total $1,938,893 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,099,042 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,149 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $442k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY | $77,000 |
| NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS | $75,000 |
| DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE | $60,000 |
| MOTT HAVEN - PORT MORRIS COMMUNITY LAND STEWARDS | $60,000 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $60,000 |
| URBAN DESIGN FORUM | $60,000 |
| CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE | $50,000 |
| OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR NORTH BROOKLYN INC | $45,000 |
| VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC | $40,000 |
| GREEN GUERILLAS | $40,000 |
| CONCRETE SAFARIS INC | $40,000 |
| FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 26 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS5× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +4%
- FGFORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +140%
- BRBRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TQTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $996k · revenue +68% · 30% of their budget
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +109%- GMGreenpoint Monitor Museumone grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue -83% · 69% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
To protect and preserve the magic of Elizabeth Street Garden as a public community green space and to determine how nyc parks & recreation together with the community can protect the garden for generations to enjoy
A better way brooklyn, inc. is a new york not-for-profit corporation formed for the purposes of educating the public about transportation issues throughout new york city by promoting community awareness and concerns on construction and…
To improve parks, playgrounds, and open space in downtown manhattan below 14th street
Arts Gowanus is a not-for-profit organization working to support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn
The organization is based on governor's island whose mission is to reduce the organic waste misdirected into new york city's landfills by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting.
NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of cultural networks and community leaders that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connectemonos. 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
138 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 138 of the 159 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.
- Who funds THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR NORTH BROOKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN GUERILLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX IS BLOOMING ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE SAFARIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY H2O INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKAWAY DEVELOPMENT AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC ↗
- Who funds RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Queens Land Trust ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CATROCK VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN QUEENS PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHKILLSPARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Greenpoint Monitor Museum ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN ↗
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: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · In Our Backyards Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Staten Island Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Levitt Foundation Inc · The New York and Presbyterian Hospital
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 City Parks Foundation 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.
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.