California · Nonprofit
BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS
BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,565 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS ($75,565). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Ballona Discovery Park Partners does
Mission
The Ballona Discovery Park Partners mission is the ownership, preservation, protection, maintenance and enhancement of ballona discovery park and also the enhancement of recreational activities and programs primarily regarding the ballona wetlands and its watershed to benefit the general public, schools and other educational institutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In early 2013, k-5 students from neighboring playa vista elementary school adopted a pollinator garden plot, where the students learned how to plant and tend native plants. Since that time, the students have returned as part of their studies to observe how the garden is doing and what kinds of wildlife it has attracted and participate in a bird count. The park is a focal study site for stem teacher professional development workshops that are part of the national science foundation funded by urbanecolab curriculum.
$6,570 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,570.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $127k to $99k (−21%).
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.
100% of BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
100% of BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS?
- BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,565 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS ($75,565). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $95,565 in grants to BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS?
- FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS is the largest funder on record, with $75,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing