Texas · Nonprofit
Friends of Pumpkin Park
Friends of Pumpkin Park (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,258,500 to it, the largest being THE ELKINS FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Friends of Pumpkin Park does
Mission
Friends of Pumpkin Park exists to support the vision of Pumpkin Park to be a place that brings the Houston community fun and exciting experiences through its charming outdoor area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The vision of Pumpkin Park is to be a space that inspires Houstonians to build a joyful community where everyone can explore, learn, and grow. To further this vision, Friends of Pumpkin Park is spearheading a renovation of the Park that will improve the Park's amenities and enhance its infrastructure. In 2024, Friends of Pumpkin Park made strides in moving the renovation project forward through a variety of activities including the land survey, cost estimates, architectural and landscape design work, and fundraising efforts.
$441,828 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $441,828.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $225k to $7.2M (+3114%).
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.
100% of Friends of Pumpkin Park’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Margaret Elkins Davis
Chair & President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Pumpkin 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 Pumpkin Park leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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 Pumpkin Park's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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 Pumpkin Park holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Friends of Pumpkin 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Elkins Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Pumpkin Park: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Pumpkin Park?
- Friends of Pumpkin Park (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,258,500 to it, the largest being THE ELKINS FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Pumpkin Park have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,258,500 in grants to Friends of Pumpkin Park, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Pumpkin Park?
- THE ELKINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Pumpkin Park find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 22 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