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FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC

FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,050 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($750,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$754k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$884k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Friends of Dewitt Parks & Rec Inc does

Mission

To enhance, complement, support and generally aid in the fulfillment of the programs and facilities of the town of dewitt parks & recreation department. Provide support to the dewitt parks & recreation deparment to provide safe and enjoyable recreational opportunities for all town of dewitt residents and vistors and to be responsible stewards of the town's valuable parks and recreational resources.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The food sense program is a monthly food buying co-op for anyone who wants to stretch their grocery dollars. The food sense program provides a monthly box of 12-15 staple grocery items at a discounted price. The program is adminstered by the food bank of central new york, with the town of dewitt acting as a host site and the friends of dewitt parks & recreation, inc. Administering the program.

    $5,818 spent$3,766 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  2. To provide support for the "field of dreams" at carrier park. Carrier park was the first facility in the country to build a fully handicap accessible, fully integrated sports complex available to all children and adults with special needs, as well as able-bodied children and adults. Carrier park is home to the syracuse challenger baseball program, which is a little leaque division that provides children with physical and developmental disabilities the opportunity to play baseball; whereby the syracuse challenger baseball represents the largest single district of the challenger baseball program in the united states.

    $53,471 spent
    88% of program spending
  3. To provide scholarships for summer camp and other programs.

    $1,409 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,698.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($264k)2018 Revenue 118 ($71k) Expenses 105 ($26k) Net assets 117 ($309k)2019 Revenue 79 ($48k) Expenses 886 ($218k) Net assets 53 ($139k)2020 Revenue 67 ($40k) Expenses 585 ($144k) Net assets 13 ($35k)2021 Revenue 30 ($18k) Expenses 68 ($17k) Net assets 14 ($37k)2022 Revenue 26 ($15k) Expenses 84 ($21k) Net assets 12 ($31k)2023 Revenue 422 ($254k) Expenses 359 ($88k) Net assets 75 ($198k)2024 Revenue 1253 ($754k) Expenses 275 ($68k) Net assets 335 ($884k)
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Revenue (1253)Expenses (275)Net assets (335)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $202k to $885k (+337%).

$264k
$309k
$139k
$35k
$37k
$31k
$202k
$885k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
$45k
’18
−$170k
’19
−$104k
’20
$1k
’21
−$5k
’22
$166k
’23
$687k
’24
157
months of
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.

20232024
Listed1313
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $210k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC’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

FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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

100% 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 FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 52% — 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

83% of FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $180k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $860k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin91% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve157.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
69%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC?
FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,050 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($750,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,040,050 in grants to FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC?
Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DEWITT PARKS & REC INC find more funders?
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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 4 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