Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC
FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,624,280 to it, the largest being THE SNYDER FOUNDATION ($1,019,372). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Friends of the Katy Trail Inc does
Mission
The mission of friends of the katy trail is to maintain, enhance and advocate for the katy trail as the premier trail for recreation, wellness, and alternative transportation in the city of dallas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Friends of the katy trail maintains and enhances the katy trail for the city of dallas and the benefit of north texas area citizens and visitors. Fkt raises funds for landscape maintenance, lighting, water, private security, continued improvements, and more on the trail. A major asset of dallas, the katy trail is a treasured urban greenspace and saw millions of visits in 2024.
$585,735 spent$46,805 earned by the program16% of program spendingFriends of the katy trail continues to enhance the trail with amenities for all users. 2024 brought the installation of several new benches, a major plantings restoration project, the opening of the staubach pass plaza at the harvard crossing, and the beginning of the 2024 city bond projects campaign to bring two important improvements to the trail. The bond projects are (1) a new trail entrance from fairmount street and (2) landscape restoration and safety measures on the trail's north end from knox street to harvard avenue.
$3,076,717 spent83% of program spendingKaty trail art partners with dallas area museums, art collectors, and the community at large to expand the role of contemporary art in public spaces in dallas. The initiative borrows, commissions, and produces world-class art projects on and around the katy trail to inspire creativity, spark conversation, encourage self-reflection, challenge assumptions, foster community building and promote civic ownership of the katy trail. Katy trail art installed two sculpture series in 2024 from artists ivan argote and eddie martinez.
$63,719 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,726,171.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $2.2M to $5.8M (+161%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Amy Bean
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $185k → $121k.
9 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $813k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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 THE KATY TRAIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 THE KATY TRAIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 53% · 2021 71% · 2022 66% · 2023 21% — 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
48% of FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
93% of FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $792k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 THE KATY TRAIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,624,280 to it, the largest being THE SNYDER FOUNDATION ($1,019,372). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $2,624,280 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC?
- THE SNYDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,019,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing