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FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY
FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,582 to it, the largest being PARK NATIONAL CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $907k
What Foundation Park Conservancy Dba Ariel-Foundation Park Conservancy does
Mission
To make Ariel-Foundation Park a world class example of adaptive reuse that honors its industrial heritage and makes it the focal point for recreation, entertainment, and social interaction in Knox County.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Community benefit activities included caring for 250 acres of revitalized greenspace and adjacent neighborhood properties under the ownership and/or care of the Conservancy; promoted outdoor recreation throughout the year, including hosting a Total Solar Eclipse viewing event, welcoming 4,100 visitors on April 8; hosted and/or partnered on seven concerts including one in celebration of July 4th; hosted the City of Mount Vernons July 4th fireworks event welcoming 8,000 guests to the park, plus more than 130 other events throughout the park season; provided two themed sunset social events; continued redevelopment of a native prairie, now designated the Delano Field of Discovery; marketed the park including nine paid social media ads and a feature in Ohio Magazines March/April edition; supported social media and website engagement with 568,000 views on Facebook and 972 follows, plus 29,000 visitors to the parks website; managed 104 community lighting requests for the tower or downtown bridge to promote, honor and celebrate special messages from community members; hosted the Knox County Career Center AFJROTC Raider Competition; managed rentals of park pavilions and three event venues;…
$391,239 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,239.
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 2018 to 2019, from $28k to $442k (+1500%).
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 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY’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 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $1.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Ariel Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY?
- FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,582 to it, the largest being PARK NATIONAL CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $42,582 in grants to FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY?
- PARK NATIONAL CORPORATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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