How much did CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC reported 81 grants totaling $2,099,042 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC based?

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is based in NY.

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

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· Public charity

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

To promote and assist in the programming and revitalization of new york city's parks and such other facilities that are under the jurisdiction of the new york city department of parks and recreation ("dpr").

$2.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$77k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$4.1MArts & Culture$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.2MCommunity Improvement$893kEducation$510kHuman Services$425kYouth Development$340kEmployment$265kHousing & Shelter$235kOther$3.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

around

2020

maintain activateactivate nycnyc openopen spaces

2021

maintain activateactivate nycnyc openopen spaces

2022

maintain activateactivate nycnyc openopen spaces

2023

maintain activateactivate nycnyc openopen spaces

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $112k
$10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k7 grants · $442k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$47M

Total assets

Largest grants

GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY$77,000
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS$75,000
MOTT HAVEN - PORT MORRIS COMMUNITY LAND STEWARDS$60,000
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE$60,000
URBAN DESIGN FORUM$60,000
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC$60,000
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE$50,000
OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR NORTH BROOKLYN INC$45,000
FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY$40,000
BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE$40,000
VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE$40,000
CONCRETE SAFARIS INC$40,000
BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE$40,000
WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC$40,000
GREEN GUERILLAS$40,000

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$9.9M · 86 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +28% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.9M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+28%

Still filing today

94%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

GC
GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $489k · revenue +83% · 25% of their budget
NY
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS
5× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +17%
FG
FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +506%

Funded once

QP
QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $996k · revenue -18% · 30% of their budget
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +117%
GM
GREENPOINT MONITOR MUSEUM
one grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue -93% · 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.

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.

Battery Park City Parks

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

Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp"), is the entity responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance and operation of brooklyn bridge park, an 85-acre sustainable waterfront park stretching 1.3 miles…

Recreation & Sports

City Gardens Club of New York City

To foster an appreciation of nature and to encourage the creation, restoration and preservation of green spaces throughout the city.

Environment

New York Water Environment

To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.

Environment

Openplans Inc

Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets.

Public Benefit

The Bronx Council On the Arts

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

Earth Matter Ny Inc

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.

Environment

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement

North Brooklyn Development Corp

North brooklyn development corporation was formed to assist,promote, encourage and stimulate the construction and/or rehabilitation of residential buildings in blighted or underdeveloped areas of brooklyn,ny

Human Services

Friends of Downtown Parks Nyc Inc

To improve parks, playgrounds, and open space in downtown manhattan below 14th street

Environment

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

Manages the implementation of the city of new york's economic initiatives for the redevelopment of the hudson yards area of manhattan, including extension of no. 7 subway to west 34th st, construction of public amenities including parks…

Community Improvement

Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc

To improve and beautify park avenue in new york city by beautification activities that will contribute to the visual, aesthetic and architectural interest of park avenue.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona 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.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%1/159

the rest of the field

10%

4,825/48,535

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.

05the grantee network

138 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

135/138

Grantees still filing

105/138

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$4,127,589Other$4,103,661Arts & Culture$1,250,779Recreation & Sports$1,166,799Community Improvement$892,797Education$510,064Human Services$425,000

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.

Lily Auchincloss Foundation IncNY78.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREENPOINT MONITOR MUSEUM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113332514 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GREENPOINT MONITOR MUSEUM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to City Parks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to City Parks Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

138 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to City Parks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

138 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to City Parks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph