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CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY

CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE COULSON FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$28k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$130k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What City Parks Conservancy does

Mission

City Parks Conservancy is a private, independent, nonprofit organization committed to providing resources and supporting partnerships that augment the efforts to sustain a healthy, beautiful and usable parks system for the citizens of little rock, arkansas.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.

Program

West central sports complex - constructing a youth sports complex with new multi-purpose playing fields and a swimming pool in west little rock. This is a partnership with little rock parks and recreation.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($139k)2018 Revenue 28 ($28k) Expenses 245 ($38k) Net assets 93 ($130k)
20172018
Revenue (28)Expenses (245)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $139k to $130k (−7%).

$139k
$130k
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
−$9k
’18
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY’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

CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

AR

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2018.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−72% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,898 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2018

Organizations like CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY

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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

33%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY: 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 CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY?
CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE COULSON FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,000 in grants to CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY.
Who is the largest funder of CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY?
THE COULSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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