Connecticut · Nonprofit
BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,034 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($355,648). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $520k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $666k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Bushnell Park Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Maintenance and preservation of bushnell park in hartford, ct.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Bushnell Park Conservancy Inc.'s mission is to serve as an advocate for the city of hartford's historical park, to help the hartford area citizen's preserve, enhance and maintain the parks landscape design, historical features and landmarks so that children and families, residents and visitors will continue to enjoy the park as a place for a quiet reflection, a place for nature and beauty, and a place in which the city's rich and diverse history and culture are celebrated and remembered. The park boasts over 1 million visitors each year. More than 20,000 children and families continue to visit the children's play and learning environment and winter skating rink. In addition, in its 20-year history, the conservancy has raised and expended more than $7 million to restore and preserve the park, its landscape and landmarks.
$369,091 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $369,091.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $764k to $957k (+25%).
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.
85% of BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $2k → $161k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC’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
BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 29% · 2020 87% · 2021 49% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $279k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Against its field
BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC?
- BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,034 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($355,648). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $666,034 in grants to BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $355,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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