Louisiana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK
FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being FREEMAN-WOOLLAM FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $16k
What Friends of Ruston Skatepark does
Mission
Friends of Ruston Skatepark exists to raise awareness, support and private funding for the construction of a skatepark on a property owned and operated by our local municipality, Ruston, Louisiana. All funds donated to the Friends of Ruston Skatepark will be directly donated to the City of Ruston to help defray a portion of the public expense to construct the park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of Ruston Skatepark met and exceeded our fundraising goal as required in the Memorandum of Understanding between our organization and the City of Ruston, LA.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $261k to $11k (−96%).
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.
99% of FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Joey Slaughter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 RUSTON SKATEPARK’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 RUSTON SKATEPARK's grant income comes from Louisiana 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
56%
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 RUSTON SKATEPARK: 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 RUSTON SKATEPARK?
- FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being FREEMAN-WOOLLAM FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK?
- FREEMAN-WOOLLAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF RUSTON SKATEPARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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