Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT PARKS COALITION
DETROIT PARKS COALITION (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,107,833 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($1,308,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Detroit Parks Coalition does
Mission
The Detroit Parks Coalition ("the coalition") is an alliance of community members and parks leaders working to support healthy, equitable, and vibrant parks in detroit. The coalition develops and facilitates city-wide parks programming, raises money for park improvements, and supports community organizations that care for detroit's parks.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pistons neighbors program - drop-in activities for all ages, including sports clinics, live music, dance classes, and visual arts.
$360,327 spent22% of program spendingPublic wifi support - a pilot program to install and maintain free public wifi networks in five city of detroit parks.
$205,742 spent13% of program spendingPark improvements - construction and/ or rehabilitation of various parks within the city of detroit.
$758,314 spentof which $647,250 as grants46% of program spendingPark programming - various activities in detroit's park supporting the organization's mission of creating healthy, equitable, and vibrant parks.
$313,320 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,637,703.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $475k to $1.9M (+298%).
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.
99% of DETROIT PARKS COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 DETROIT PARKS COALITION’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
DETROIT PARKS COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 DETROIT PARKS COALITION.
“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
79% of DETROIT PARKS COALITION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DETROIT PARKS COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DETROIT PARKS COALITION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 DETROIT PARKS COALITION: 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 DETROIT PARKS COALITION?
- DETROIT PARKS COALITION (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,107,833 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($1,308,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT PARKS COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,107,833 in grants to DETROIT PARKS COALITION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT PARKS COALITION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $1,308,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT PARKS COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 12 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