Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Friends of Hempfield Parks
Friends of Hempfield Parks (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of Hempfield Parks runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Regis Synan Family Foundation LLClocalportfolio match
- The Benter Foundationshared funders
- Garden Club of Allegheny Countyportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Hempfield Parks’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of Hempfield Parks's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Regis Synan Family Foundation LLClocalportfolio matchPA · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Benter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Garden Club of Allegheny Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Natural Lands Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parks & Trails New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pa Cleanways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Friends of Hempfield Parks
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Hempfield Parks: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Hempfield Parks?
- Friends of Hempfield Parks (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Hempfield Parks have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250,000 in grants to Friends of Hempfield Parks.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Hempfield Parks?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Hempfield Parks find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing