North Carolina · Nonprofit
Durham Parks Foundation
Durham Parks Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,050 to it, the largest being The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation aka The Burt's Bees Foundation ($121,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Durham Parks Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,643 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,643 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Forest At Duke Inclocalportfolio match
- Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fishlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
75% of Durham Parks Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Durham 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
Durham Parks Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
Durham Parks Foundation draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Forest At Duke Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fishlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Daniel and Karen Berman Foundationlocalportfolio matchDE · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Durham Arts Council InclocalNC · funds 90 organizations near you
- James and Mildred Wilkinson Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert L Mattocks II and Carol J Mattocks Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Re Corr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jandy Ammons Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Durham Parks Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Durham 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Durham Parks Foundation?
- Durham Parks Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,050 to it, the largest being The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation aka The Burt's Bees Foundation ($121,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Durham Parks Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $153,050 in grants to Durham Parks Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Durham Parks Foundation?
- The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation aka The Burt's Bees Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $121,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Durham Parks Foundation 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing