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The Skatepark Project

THE SKATEPARK PROJECT helps underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$5.4MCommunity Improvement$175kHealth$52kYouth Development$48kInternational$46kCivil Rights$30kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $444,930, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,704,272 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,259,342 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $179k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLEFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$250,000
WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM$40,000
BROOKLYN BRIDGE MANHATTAN INC$27,000
LOCKPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$25,000
ROSE CITY ROLLERS$15,000
ENVIRONMENTAL HOOD RESTORATION INC$15,000
SOCIAL IMPACT FUND$15,000
TUTIFRUITI SKATE INC$12,430
HAROLD HUNTER FOUNDATION$10,000
4KINSHIPINSPIRING CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$10,000
EARTHHUB TV$10,000
SUPER SKATE POSSE$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%ONE TREASURE ISLAND: $5k → 10%EXPOSURE SKATE: $5k → 11%EXPOSURE SKATE: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
89

Total granted

$1.2M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-8%

Still filing today

67%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • S
    SKATEISTAN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +7%
  • MH
    MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • ES
    EXPOSURE SKATE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +512%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue -78% · 35% of their budget
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • TO
    TOWN OF SWEDEN
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
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
Asheville Skate Foundation

Asheville Skate Foundation (ASF) is the organization that creates, maintains and preserves public, DIY, and community space at The Foundy, the skateable sculpture park located in the heart of the River Arts District in Asheville, NC.…

Recreation & Sports
2
Skate Free Inc
Education
3
Lebanon Skatepark Committee

To enrich the city of lebanon by cooperating with local skaters, businesses, and community at large to facilitate the construction of a public skatepark.

Recreation & Sports
4
Skate Raleigh

Advocacy, fundraising, and activation for action sports in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Recreation & Sports
5
Hawaii Skatepark Association

The Hawaii Skatepark Association is a 501c3 non profit organization Tax#82-2722780 organized and operated for the development of free state of the art skateparks ; Provide educational and outreach pertaining to the benefits of skateparks…

Recreation & Sports
6
Carpinteria Skate Foundation

The carpinteria skate foundation (csf) is dedicated to fostering recreational and extracurricular opportunities in the community of carpinteria. through the creation of the carpinteria skate park and the push project, csf works to maintain…

Recreation & Sports
7
Legends Skateboard Park

To raise funds to build the legends skateboard park in el campo, texas

Recreation & Sports
8
Girls On Shred

Our mission is to empower youth and marginalized genders including women non-binary, and trans folk, and build community through action sports skill-building, equipment sharing, and accessible community events. We seek to transform…

Youth Development
9
City Fields Foundation
Recreation & Sports
10
Pittsboro Skate Park

To provide a skateboard park for public use

Recreation & Sports
11
Clark Park Coalition

Clark park coalition exists to provide an array of diverse, high-quality recreational, educational, social and mentoring programs for southwest detroit families promoting skills development which helps our youth grow into responsible,…

Recreation & Sports
12
Board House Society

Providing outdoor education through skateboarding camps and lessons to local youth

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harold Hunter Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Thomas J Evans Foundation. 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

53 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. 53 of the 113 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/53
Grantees still filing
23/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCKPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $350,000 · OtherLOCKPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INCVILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE: $300,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLETOWN OF SWEDEN: $300,000 · OtherTOWN OF SWEDENCITY OF FERNDALE: $300,000 · OtherCITY OF FERNDALEVILLAGE OF MEDINA: $292,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF MEDINACITY OF ROCHESTER: $250,000 · OtherCITY OF ROCHESTERWashtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Developement: $250,000 · OtherWashtenaw County Office of Community and Economic DevelopementTOWN OF GREECE: $250,000 · OtherTOWN OF GREECECITY OF DETROIT GENERAL SERVICES DEPT: $250,000 · OtherCITY OF DETROIT GENERAL SERVICES DEPTGREEN SPRINGVILLE INC: $220,319 · OtherGREEN SPRINGVILLE INCPOWER HOUSE PRODUCTIONS: $175,000 · Other+74 more: $1,057,331 · Other+74 moreLITTLEFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementLITTLEFIEL…WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $238,588 · Community ImprovementWARM SPRIN…BROOKLYN BRIDGE MANHATTAN INC: $57,000 · Community ImprovementBROOKLYN B…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSHERIFF PAL PROGRAM: $300,000 · Recreation & SportsREADING SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsROSE CITY ROLLERS: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+7 more: $50,500 · Recreation & SportsCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $375,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyALTURAS ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact Fund: $15,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyACTION SPORTS KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $148,250 · Crime & LegalREDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationColfax Green Machine: $10,000 · EducationNA LEI WILI AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER: $10,000 · Education
Other$3,994,650Community Improvement$550,588Recreation & Sports$390,500Environment$385,000Philanthropy$325,000Crime & Legal$148,250Education$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $375,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSHERIFF PAL PROGRAM: $300,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLITTLEFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $238,588 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetACTION SPORTS KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $148,250 over 2y, 11% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE MANHATTAN INC: $57,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSKATEISTAN: $45,940 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Harold Hunter Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHARNESS COMMUNITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREADING SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetALTURAS ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSE CITY ROLLERS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUTIFRUTI SKATE INC: $12,430 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARK ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPeak Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorth Star Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HARWOOD MEMORIAL PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetColfax Green Machine: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Greater Huntsville: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNA LEI WILI AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEXPOSURE SKATE: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSUPER SKATE POSSE: $8,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RECREATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREASURE ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROLLIN FROM THE HEART FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNext Up Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

Community Foundation …National Recreation a…AARPCenter for Technology…National Fish and Wil…Tides FoundationThe Chicago Community…Local Initiatives Sup…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · National Recreation and Park Association · AARP · Center for Technology and Civic Life · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 The Skatepark Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Skatepark Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Warm Springs Community Action Team: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 113 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home