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Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation

The organization's mission is to provide funds for programs, facilities and events for the lake forest parks and recreation department which fall ouside the city of lake forest's budget.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,136,906
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,136,906
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$787k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$1.1M100%
FY20201$9k0%
FY20191$477k0%
FY20171$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Environment$477kRecreation & Sports$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Lake Forest$491,3993n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

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About Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation

How much does Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation give?
Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,136,906 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (97%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
Who are Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Lake Forest ($491k).
Does Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation based?
Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation is based in IL.

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 2 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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