Texas · Public charity
Houston Parks Board
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $954k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,486
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $885,634
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $107M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Houston Parks Board funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $954k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $5.8M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $6.2M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $6.0M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $10.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $9.8M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $5.7M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $3.3M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Parks Board LGC Inc | $52,031,910 | 9 | n/a |
| City of Houston | $3,436,452 | 9 | n/a |
| Pasadena Economic Development Corporation | $308,188 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Golf Association Inc | $92,363 | 1 | n/a |
| City Parks Alliance Inc | $27,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Houston Arts Alliance | $22,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $9,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Mandell Park | $8,312 | 1 | n/a |
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Houston Parks Board
- How much does Houston Parks Board give?
- Houston Parks Board reported 3 itemized grants totaling $953,620, out of $2,984,479 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Parks Board fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (93%), Environment (5%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
- Who are Houston Parks Board's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Parks Board LGC Inc ($52M), City of Houston ($3.4M), Pasadena Economic Development Corporation ($308k).
- Does Houston Parks Board fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Parks Board?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Houston Parks Board based?
- Houston Parks Board is based in TX.
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