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Fairmount Park Conservancy

FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY brings parks to life.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$912kPublic Benefit$898kEnvironment$182kArts & Culture$49kEducation$7kRecreation & Sports$7k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $24,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,034 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,034 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELCOME AMERICA INC$17,000
FRIENDS OF MATTHIAS BALDWIN PARK$7,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $60k → 22%STRAWBERRY MANSION CDC: $170k → 22%STRAWBERRY MANSION CDC: $85k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATTHIAS BALDWIN PARK: $7k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON: $21k → 22%FAIRMOUNT PARK TRUST FUNDS: $359k → 22%PHILADELPHIA PARKS & RECREATION: $325k → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $227k → 22%WELCOME AMERICA INC: $17k → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $60k → 22%WELCOME AMERICA INC: $17k → 22%RIVERFRONT NORTH PARTNERSHIP: $162k → 22%FRIENDS OF RYERSS AT BURHOLME: $8k → 22%CENTENNIAL PARK CDC: $85k → 22%CENTENNIAL PARK CDC: $85k → 22%MT AIRY USA: $12k → 22%CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC: $85k → 22%FRIENDS OF PRETZEL PARK (MANAYUNK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL): $7k → 22%BARTRAM'S GARDENJOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $85k → 22%BARTRAM'S GARDEN: $85k → 22%BARTRAM'S GARDEN: $85k → 22%MEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $7k → 22%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.
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$969k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$962k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • CP
    CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $255k · revenue +77% · 27% of their budget
  • THE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $255k · revenue +199%
  • WA
    WELCOME AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAIRMOUNT PARK TRUST FUNDS
    one grant, 2020 · $359k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $325k
  • DR
    DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $162k · revenue +31%
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
Friends of the Rail Park

Friends of the rail park was founded to cultivate visions, advocate for, and ultimately manage a continous three-mile linear park and recreation path in philadelphia.

Environment
2
Fairmount Park Conservancy

Fairmount park conservancy brings parks to life. the conservancy works with the city of philadelphia and its communities to steward our parks and nurture our shared environment, cultural resources and public health (cont'd in sch o)- and…

Environment
3
Schuylkill River Development Corporation

Srdc is revitalizing philadelphia's tidal schuylkill river corridor into an asset that connects neighborhoods and encourages investment. working with the city and stakeholders to build, maintain, and program schuylkill banks, srdc drives…

Community Improvement
4
Friends of Rittenhouse Square

To preserve, protect, and beautify the rittenhouse square park, in the rittenhouse section of philadelphia.

Environment
5
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
6
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.

Community Improvement
7
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
8
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
9
Elfreths Alley Association Inc

The misssion of the elfreth's alley association is to preserve and protect the elfreth's alley historic district, while interpreting the contributions of everday philadelphians to our american story.

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10
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
11
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
12
Awbury Arboretum Association

Awbury Arboretum is a free public garden and farm serving Northwest Philadelphia. Building on the social justice values of our Quaker founders, we make a positive environmental impact, educate children and adults, and nurture an inclusive…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ryerss Library and Museum. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRMOUNT PARK TRUST FUNDS: $359,437 · OtherFAIRMOUNT PARK TRUST FUNDSIndividual grant recipient: $325,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $287,000 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $255,000 · OtherTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION+3 more: $25,900 · OtherCENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC: $255,000 · Community ImprovementCENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDCStrawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation: $255,000 · Community ImprovementStrawberry Mansion Community Developm…DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $162,390 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATIONPHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $21,250 · EnvironmentWELCOME AMERICA INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF RYERSS LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $8,039 · Arts & CultureMEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,252,337Community Improvement$672,390Environment$81,250Arts & Culture$49,039

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $287,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC: $255,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetStrawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation: $255,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $255,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $162,390 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWELCOME AMERICA INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $21,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMT AIRY USA: $11,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The William Penn FoundationPA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Fairmount Park Conservancy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairmount Park Conservancy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $47k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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