New Jersey · Nonprofit
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,250 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What City Parks Foundation Inc does
Mission
To encourage the city of newark to use their neighborhood parks by offering community-building programs that bring people into their local green spaces.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
City parks foundation, inc. Offers free public programs designed to engage with those who live, work and visit the city of newark. Our programs range from arts and culture, health and fitness, and environmental education and are accessible to all. The events intend to welcome people to utilize their public space and to build park stewardship. We work with a variety of partners including the city of newark, local non-profit, arts, and educational institutions and the community to create programs that directly benefit the city and its residents. New event programs added during the year were the fitness festival, a 3 day festival of fitness activations across all 5 parks including sports, health and wellness workshops, dance classes and a community bike ride and walk in may 2024, north 2 shore audible showcase featuring 3 days of music and dance performances and a vendor village at harriet tubman square on june 2024, caribbean festival celebrating caribbean culture with music and dance performances, vendors and a food pavilion held in august 2024, the off school time programming partnership with the united way hosting weekly events with area partners to engage youth with activities…
$1,805,126 spent$22,276 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,805,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $1.1M (−52%).
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: 2022 13% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Marcy S Depina
Executive director
Board chair
Anthony Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 CITY PARKS FOUNDATION 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
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC.
“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
88% of CITY PARKS FOUNDATION 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CITY PARKS FOUNDATION 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY PARKS FOUNDATION 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 CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,250 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $340,250 in grants to CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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