New Hampshire · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS
FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,774 to it, the largest being THE JACK AND DOROTHY BYRNE FOUNDATION INC ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Friends of Lebanon Recreation Arts & Parks does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is to advocate for and raise funds through various means to support and enhance recreation arts and parks for all residents in Lebanon and West Lebanon New Hampshire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Civic Memorial Playground is designed to serve children ages 2-12 with a broad range of physical abilities and will be the first playground in this area to be fully supported by a rubberized surfacing that meets new accessibility regulations in New Hampshire. Located at the terminus of the anticipated extension of the Mascoma River Greenway Civic Park is also accessible by sidewalks and served by ADA-compliant parking and bathrooms. We are delighted that the Civic Plays playground plan has been assessed as disability-friendly by the Special Needs Support Center. The playground benefits the entire Upper Valley community.
$41,622 spent95% of program spendingCycling Without Age or CWA connects volunteer cyclists with seniors and others with mobility limitations to enjoy a ride on an E-assist trishaw. Our mission is to increase access to our Rail Trails get isolated seniors out into the community and build intergenerational relationships through active volunteerism
$2,044 spent5% of program spendingThe E-Bike Project aims to support the healthy and increasingly popular use of electric bicycles by Lebanon residents and visitors especially seniors. Donations to the E-Bike Project would help install the charging and cover the cost of electricity in order to allow riders coming to downtown Lebanon or other ways to advance e-bike riding. The fundraising goal is 10,000; no funds will be expended until the goal is met.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,666.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $68k to $135k (+98%).
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.
97% of FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $55k → $7k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS?
- FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,774 to it, the largest being THE JACK AND DOROTHY BYRNE FOUNDATION INC ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $182,774 in grants to FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS?
- THE JACK AND DOROTHY BYRNE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LEBANON RECREATION ARTS & PARKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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