New York · 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. Cpf's programs located in more than 400 parks, recreation centers and public schools across new york city reach 300,000 people each…
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $77,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations City Parks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 81 | $1.9M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $1.8M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $2.2M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.7M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $3.7M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $131k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queens Library Foundation Inc | $995,993 | 1 | 30% |
| Brooklyn Greenway Initiative | $495,540 | 5 | 28% |
| Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc | $489,000 | 5 | 25% |
| New Yorkers for Parks | $415,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Natural Areas Conservancy Inc | $333,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Fort Greene Park Conservancy Inc | $290,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Bronx River Alliance Inc | $285,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Van Cortlandt Park Alliance | $240,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn Inc | $236,900 | 4 | 13% |
| Riverside Park Conservancy Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 159 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
City Parks Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About City Parks Foundation Inc
- How much does City Parks Foundation Inc give?
- City Parks Foundation Inc reported 81 itemized grants totaling $1,938,893, out of $2,099,042 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does City Parks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are City Parks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Queens Library Foundation Inc ($996k), Brooklyn Greenway Initiative ($496k), Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc ($489k).
- Does City Parks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as City Parks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is City Parks Foundation Inc based?
- City Parks Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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