Missouri · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK
FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,200 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Friends of Francis Park does
Mission
Francis park is owned by the city of st. Louis, which has limited funds to maintain the park. A group of city residents got together and formed Friends of Francis Park (fofp), a 501(c)(3) corporation, to preserve, improve, support and promote our neighborhood park and to help fund and implement improvements in francis park. Fofp works closely with the neighborhood association, our alderperson and the city parks department. Fofp is funded through private contributions and the net proceeds from the annual run for the hills, foot golf event, and art in the park. It has no paid employees. The city parks department as well as our 2nd ward alderperson have been included in all of our discussions about proposed improvements or fund raising activities in the park and must approve any improvements or activities proposed by fofp before they are implemented or scheduled.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fofp is funded through private contributions, grants and neighborhood events. As in prior years, due to limitations on city resources, fofp, along with other neighborhood organizations, funded some grass cutting for the park as well as costs to remove and clean up dead trees in the park. Fofp also funded restoration of the park's handball courts; a winter clean up of the native garden area; park maintenance, landscape work, and trees/flowers for the park; maintenance of the david r. Francis statue area; and maintenance and clean up of the park's beautiful and iconic lily pond. The st. Louis hills special business district provided funding for the handball courts' restoration. In 2025, fofp promoted the park through its annual run for the hills, foot golf, and art in the park events. These events were held in the park and were attended, cumulatively, by thousands of people. In 2018, fofp completed the campaign for a statue of david r. Francis, for whom the park is named and who donated the land for francis park to the city of st. Louis on christmas eve 1916. Additionally, in 2018, the statue was installed, dedicated and donated to the city of st. Louis. Thereafter, fofp continues…
$82,073 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,073.
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 2023 to 2024, from $194k to $117k (−40%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $47k → $29k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 FRANCIS PARK’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 FRANCIS PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
79% 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 FRANCIS PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 53% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“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
79% of FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k 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
FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK?
- FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,200 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $197,200 in grants to FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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