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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Fair Park First does
Mission
The purposes for which the corporation is organized are: a) to operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific or literary purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the code, by engaging directly in support of such purposes or by making distributions to other organizations for use, by the distrutees, in support of such purposes; b) to oversee operations and management of historic and architecturally significant landmarks, public parks, and public entertainment venues and related public educational facilities; and c) to engage in any and all lawful activities incidental to the foregoing purposes, except as otherwise restricted herein. The corporation shall not carry on, other than as an insubstantial part of its activities, activities that are not in furtherance of its purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fair Park First's, a texas nonprofit's mission is to restore, revitalize, and renew fair park, a 138-year-old, 277-acre national historic landmark, in order to attract attention from the local community, the region, and the nation. As the conservator and manager of this city of dallas property, Fair Park First focuses on the historic preservation of buildings and art, along with the restoration, operation, and maintenance of the entire campus. The organization also engages in activation through major events and local community programming. Fair park has received extensive accolades throughout its history. It was the site of the 1936 texas centennial exposition and the 1936 world's fair, and it boasts the largest collection of art deco art and architecture in the world. Recognized as a national historic landmark, it stands alongside the alamo as a significant site. As an epicenter of art deco and "texanic" design, with buildings, murals, and sculptures created by renowned artists, architects, and craftsmen, it is truly a crown jewel of texas. Since its inception in 2019, Fair Park First has secured over $400 million in public and philanthropic investments to restore buildings and…
$16,932,333 spent$20,352,034 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,932,333.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $28M (+80%).
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% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of FAIR PARK FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Alyssa Siffermann
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 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
FAIR PARK FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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.
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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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 25 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