Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE PARKS
FRIENDS OF THE PARKS (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,188 to it, the largest being COSHOCTON FOUNDATION ($96,703). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $218k
What Friends of the Parks does
Mission
Provide support to Coshocton County Parks
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Clearing River Logjam at Aqueduct Bridge
$800 spentof which $800 as grants11% of program spendingPavilion flooring, 19 tire rims for campfires, picnic table materials, ceiling lights for Pavilion, crocus bulbs, mulch
$2,080 spentof which $2,080 as grants28% of program spendingSpring Clean up, Kids Fishing Derby stocking,
$3,800 spentof which $3,800 as grants52% of program spendingPainting of interior of Pavilion, Park Clean up days, fish to stock pond, logjam removal in river at aqueduct bridge, wireless mics for pavilion
$637 spentof which $637 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,317.
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 2022 to 2023, from $139k to $176k (+26%).
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 THE PARKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $29k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 THE 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 THE PARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of FRIENDS OF THE PARKS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PARKS runs a healthier operating margin 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 THE 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS?
- FRIENDS OF THE PARKS (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,188 to it, the largest being COSHOCTON FOUNDATION ($96,703). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,188 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PARKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PARKS?
- COSHOCTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PARKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 3 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