California · Nonprofit
Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc
Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,275 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($23,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc does
Mission
Our organization aims to promote the support the mission of the City of Watsonvilles Parks and Community Services Department but fundraising to for recreation program scholarships for low-income youth to participate in the citys recreational program fees. We also support Department projects and provide financial assistance with projects that the city has pre-identified in a list in order of priority need whether it is park improvement projects or support for programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our program has successfully sponsored thousands of dollars in recreational sports scholarships for youth since the year of its inception in 2013. It has also covered expenses for renovations and projects such as the downtown Main St lighting project replaced park basketball court backboards acted as a fiscal agent for events such as Senior Centers Prom Night and Noche de Brillo Holiday event and supported Parks Department events such as their Staff Recognition program and Volunteer recognition program.
$2,440 spentof which $32,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,440.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc’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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc: 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 Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc?
- Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,275 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($23,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,275 in grants to Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $23,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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