Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,265,676 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,710,353). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year. AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$3.8M
Recipients
32
Contributions on record
$5.3M
Donors on record
74
Payments out are 0.72x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funders
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Skatepark Projectportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $404k → $544k.
17 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
78% of AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 73 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skatepark Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sidney a & Libby Fine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seawell Elam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skirmish Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Trshared fundersTX · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- United Way for Greater Austinshared funderslocalTX · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 177 organizations near you
- The Burdine Johnson Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Still Water Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Topfer Family Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Zilker Train LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION?
- AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,265,676 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,710,353). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year. AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $5,265,676 in grants to AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,710,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 73funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing