North Carolina · Nonprofit
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,683,352 to it, the largest being STATE EMPLOYEES' CREDIT UNION ($3,150,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy does
Mission
The conservancy will be the city's community partner and sole philanthropic partner, with a mission to "ensure the creation and long-term success of dorothea dix park as a place for everyone - a transformative public space for community, health, and celebration that will enrich our quality of life in north carolina." the conservancy is committed to being an inclusive organization that is representative of the raleigh community and serves the citizens of raleigh, the triangle region of north carolina, and the state of north carolina. The conservancy will conduct fundraising to significantly augment public funding for the creation and construction of dorothea dix park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General park planning and capital projectsin partnership with the city of raleigh, dix park conservancy accomplished:- ongoing construction of the gipson play plaza, a grand entrance plaza and a destination adventure play area.- design and construction of early impact capital projects to improve the daily visitor experience at the park, e.g. Shelters, play equipment, benches.- support planning efforts around implementation of other phases of the master plan.
$6,712,171 spentof which $3,250,000 as grants81% of program spendingCommunity engagement and programs:in partnership with the city of raleigh, dix park accomplished:- 1.1m park visitors- 138 park programs, 10 events, 4 activations, 4 public art installations, and 1 major music festival (5th annual dreamville festival).
$1,561,140 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,273,311.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.4M to $23M (+256%).
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY’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. 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $231k → $4.8M.
11 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Carolina Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 69% · 2019 51% · 2020 55% · 2021 36% · 2022 51% · 2023 62% — 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
39% of DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
80% of DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 DOROTHEA DIX PARK 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dix Park Services LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOROTHEA DIX PARK 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 DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY?
- DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,683,352 to it, the largest being STATE EMPLOYEES' CREDIT UNION ($3,150,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $10,683,352 in grants to DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY?
- STATE EMPLOYEES' CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $3,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 61 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