Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION
DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,839 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($160,910). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $613k
- Net assets
- $0
What Dallas Parks Foundation does
Mission
The Dallas Parks Foundation is dedicated to preserving, protecting, promoting and enhancing existing Dallas Parks while making a lasting contribution to the Park System by securing funds to promote the use of our parks and support the development of new and exciting recreational amenities within the City of Dallas.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Friends of Willis C Winters came together through direct donations from the community. Upgrades were made to the soccer fields, renovations to the historic pavilion, and added new picnic tables as well as updated the landscaping.
$60,465 spentof which $5,399 as grants15% of program spendingThe Dallas Parks Foundation partnered with the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department to facilitate the Best Buy Teen Tech Center. An innovative, creative, out-of-school learning space where young people, ages 12-17, can work with adult mentors to develop new skills, explore their own ideas, and build confidence in themselves through the use of cutting-edge technology. The students have access to a full audio recording studio, and editing bay, film and television productions, 3D graphics, and an animation studio.
$105,879 spentof which $45,000 as grants27% of program spendingThe Dallas Parks Foundation continues to support local friends groups and parks to assist in enhancing the beauty and beneficial use of public lands and right of ways in the city and parks. The foundation does this by promoting, securing, and administering funds to enhance and maintain parks throughout Dallas, increasing public funds for the parks systems, and raising community awareness of park stewardship. In addition, the Foundation promotes charitable, scientific, literary, educational, social, and public health and wellness activities and programs to benefit the park system, land conservation, and public health and wellness.
$226,771 spentof which $77,047 as grants58% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $393,115.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $903k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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 narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $139k → $14.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION’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
DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
98% 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 DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 61% · 2019 58% · 2020 54% · 2021 77% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — 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
38% of DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION: 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 DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION?
- DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,839 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($160,910). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $612,839 in grants to DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $160,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 15 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