Texas · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY
DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,916,671 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($5,553,669). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy does
Programs
Planning and design:as the dedicated champion and steward of parks in dallas' urban core, the conservancy devotes significant resources to professional analysis and planning for the downtown parks network. At civic garden, study and design to reimagine a portion of a parks' garden beds into a 4,000 square foot dog park facility. A preliminary study was conducted to analyze the impact a major highway project will have on carpenter park and explore opportunities to preserve key park elements and improve the park visitor experience.
$376,339 spentCapital improvement:periodically, the conservancy oversees significant capital projects in downtown parks ranging from new features to major replacement items. In 2025, the conservancy focused on pacific plaza, replacing an illuminated monument park id sign that was damaged by a car accident and installing a permanent interpretive paver noting the park pavilion's design inspiration: the texas and pacific railroad that ran through the park site.
$103,312 spentHorticulture and trees:the conservancy expanded its arbor care program for signature parks in downtown dallas which includes root flare exposure, fertilization treatments, root stimulation, pruning, and regular assessments by certified arborists. This program was established at civic garden in 2013, carpenter park in september 2024, and pacific plaza in january 2025. In addition, the conservancy oversaw landscape maintenance of the planting beds and irrigation at civic garden through october 2025, when the dallas park department took over basic maintenance of this park site so the conservancy could focus its resources on the development of a new community-driven dog park.
$250,114 spentSpecialty trades and public art conservation:the highly designed nature of the signature downtown parks require specialty trades and materials that are either difficult to procure or are outside of the municipal means. The conservancy uses specialized vendors and craftsmen that accomplish various special projects in the signature parks. In 2025 this includes public art conservation and careful grafitti removal at carpenter park and lubben plaza; repairs and maintenance of the interactive water feature at civic garden; enhanced light program adjustments at carpenter park; and stone work at lubben plaza and pacific plaza.
$196,172 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $32M to $25M (−22%).
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
Sarah Hughes
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Decherd
Chairman & trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income fell $3.6M → $2.7M.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY’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
DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 42% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
100% of DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY's revenue fell 42% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY?
- DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,916,671 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($5,553,669). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $16,916,671 in grants to DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY?
- THE DALLAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,553,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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