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Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park

Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$95k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$88k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park does

Mission

Volunteer support for Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Organized or supported more than 20 events and activities in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park. This included hikes and cleanups, Second Sundays in the Park, Baltimore Herb Festival, Solistic/Juneteenthcelebration, and all inaugural, intergenerational Fall Festival for neighborhood families

    $13,000 spent
    20% of program spending
  2. Contributed approximately 1,000 hours of volunteer labor on projects suchs ascleanups, trail work, gardening, and archiving the organizationss history

    $35,000 spent
    53% of program spending
  3. Communicated with the public about challenges facing the park as well as positive featuresof the park via website, social media, printed flyers, word of mouth, publictestimony, and the creation and distribution of a popular trail map and brochure.

    $18,500 spent
    28% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,500.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Michael Cross-Barnet

Exec Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin 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 Gwynns FallsLeakin Park leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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

27% 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 Gwynns FallsLeakin Park.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin 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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park?
Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park?
THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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