· Public charity
National Recreation and Park Association
The NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION (nrpa) is the leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to building strong, vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 81 grants below total $1,611,132 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,789,925 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $178,793 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT AIRY PARKS AND RECREATION | $84,515 |
| CITY OF AUBURN | $50,738 |
| TOWN OF WARREN | $47,362 |
| CALVERT COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION | $45,554 |
| CARTER COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION COALITION | $42,905 |
| TUALATIN HILLS PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT | $41,568 |
| NORTHEAST OPPORTUNITIES FOR WELLNESS INC | $35,155 |
| ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION | $34,728 |
| CITY OF MONROE | $32,396 |
| WESTERN WELLNESS FOUNDATION | $32,068 |
| ARIZONA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP | $31,937 |
| CLARK COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION | $31,796 |
| CITY OF IRVINE | $31,471 |
| CITY OF PORTLAND PARKS RECREATION AND FACILITIES | $31,367 |
| MECHANICSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,346 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
166 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 127 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PPPARK PRIDE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $833k · revenue +22%
- PAPARKS AND PEOPLE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $463k · revenue +10%
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY2× · 2017–2018 · $463k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TLTAOS LAND TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $575k · revenue -35% · 64% of their budget
- COCITY OF FRANKLIN INone grant, 2021 · $250k
- COCITY OF ALTON PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
Greater Metro Parks Foundation's mission is to cultivate a community invested in providing parks and recreation access to all.Its vision is plentiful, equitable access to nature, play, and recreation in Tacoma.
The Portland Parks Conservancy's mission is to enhance Portland's parks and recreational programs by raising philantropic capital and engaging the community.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.
To protect, restore and promote sound park management in the Washington DC metropolitan area. (See Continuation on Schedule O)
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
Enriching the lives and communities of the residents through charitable gifts in support of parks and programs in Prince George's County.
To acquire, own, develop, preserve, beautify, reconstruct, restore, maintain, and operate a public park and public recreation facility, open to the general public as a community service, to be used to enhance recreation opportunities,…
To improve the ecological health of Pierce Park in the City of Flint
The Greenbelt Conservancy (the "Greenbelt"), the second of New York City's Flagship Parks, consists of over 2,800 acres of public and privatge land (greater than the combined acreage of Central Park and Prospect Park) in the center of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Pride Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Power New Mexico. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 433 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds TAOS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CONNECT ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Civicwell ↗
- Who funds CARTER COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION COALITION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National League of Cities Institute Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · FitLot · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · US Green Building Council Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · AARP · Best Friends Animal Society · National Arbor Day Foundation · United States Tennis Association Incorporated
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 organization National Recreation and Park Association 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Integral Youth Services — 29% of income from government
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 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.