New Jersey · Nonprofit
FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS
FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,639 to it, the largest being COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Franklin Lakes Parks & Recreation Foundation C/O Constantine D Skamas does
Mission
Betterment of youth sports programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Franklin lakes parks & recreation foundation provides grants to franklin lakes' town parks for capital improvements and to supplement youth recreational programs.
$10,258 spentof which $4,405 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,258.
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 2018 to 2019, from $123k to $86k (−30%).
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.
100% of FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $27.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS’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
FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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 FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS?
- FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,639 to it, the largest being COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,639 in grants to FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS?
- COLUMBIA BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLIN LAKES PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION C/O CONSTANTINE D SKAMAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2 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