Ohio · Nonprofit
CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (Ohio) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,418,479 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($2,121,535). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park does
Mission
The conservancy engages community involvement through 1) programs and services to enhance the park visitor experience; 2) co-management of the park's award-winning "volunteer in parks" (vip) program; 3) education programs for school age children at the cuyahoga valley environmental education center, throughout the park and surrounding communities; 4) marketing and awareness campaigns to reach out to existing and new visitors; 5) planning and implementation of capital projects in cuyahoga valley national park including the purchase of brandywine golf course on behalf of teh conservancy and cuyahoga valley national park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cuyahoga valley environmental education center - children are provided with overnight and day program experiences. During the school year, classes participate with their teachers in field trips, day programs or overnight experiences in the park. Students can receive financial support from the conservancy, which provides child the ability to participate. The educational programs are curriculum based and supplement schools' core standards. Summer programs include day camps as well as summer academics and family-oriented programs.
$1,707,352 spentof which $159,488 as grants$447,863 earned by the program33% of program spendingCommunity engagement - park visitation to cuyahoga valley national park remains high. The conservancy engages the community within the national park in a variety of ways. The retail stores operated by the conservancy were open for visitors to enhance their park experience as well as provide visitor information about activities in and around the park. This past year, more volunteers were able to provide support to the park through the park's volunteer program, which is co-managed by the conservancy. The conservancy offers reservations to host events and meetings in our unique park buildings with operational support including event planning, catering as well as facility rentals.
$3,508,706 spentof which $639,965 as grants$1,953,624 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,216,058.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.4M to $12M (+82%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 22% · 2019 5% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Karyn Sullivan Cpa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.1M.
18 of 87 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 CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
71% 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 CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 22% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
56% of CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK's funding base is broadening — from 26 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$4.9M
- Environmental Protection Agency$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK?
- CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (Ohio) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,418,479 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($2,121,535). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $12,418,479 in grants to CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,121,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 87 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing