Texas · Nonprofit
FAIR PARK FIRST
FAIR PARK FIRST (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,548,105 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($5,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FAIR PARK FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationlocalportfolio match
- Capital for Kidsshared funderslocal
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 52% · 2020 37% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of FAIR PARK FIRST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $572k → $2.6M.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 FAIR PARK FIRST’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
FAIR PARK FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 88% · 2022 77% · 2023 34% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of FAIR PARK FIRST's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 66 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Capital for Kidsshared funderslocalTX · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Ann Margolin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Road Runners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sapphire Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vin and Caren Prothro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Muse Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Embrey Family Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding FAIR PARK FIRST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $850k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
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 FAIR PARK FIRST
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FAIR PARK FIRST: 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 FAIR PARK FIRST?
- FAIR PARK FIRST (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,548,105 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($5,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIR PARK FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $14,548,105 in grants to FAIR PARK FIRST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIR PARK FIRST?
- The Rees-Jones Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIR PARK FIRST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 25funders 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