New York · Nonprofit
Highland Park Conservancy Inc
Highland Park Conservancy Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,174 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($636,766). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $852k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Highland Park Conservancy Inc does
Mission
The mission is to preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and to promote its vast horticultural, educational and recreational resources. Continued on Schedule OWe support planning, management and restoration, and engage the community through educational and recreational programs for all ages, tours and outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Highland Park Conservancy (HPC) is the official not-for-profit volunteer organization formed to help preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and to promote its vast horticultural, educational, and recreational resources. It supports sound planning, management and restoration. Conservancy volunteers conduct tours, and other educational and recreational events that are free and open to all. Hosted numerous tours that focus on the various horticultural collections in the park, the key features of this Frederick Law Olmsted designed park and the history of the park. (Continued on Schedule O)Garden Stewards volunteer in the park weekly maintaining specific horticulture collections. Volunteers also serve on various regional committees to advocate for the parks needs.We also hosted free live music and a film in the park that was free and open to the public.Our accomplishments for the year include fundraising for the Children's Pavilion project and offering at least one free educational program to the public a month and often more. Additionally, we sponsored an educational newsletter to promote public outreach and the events we hosted in the park. Held performances in Highland Bowl…
$20,568 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,568.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+19%).
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.
68% of Highland Park Conservancy Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $37k → $13k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Highland Park Conservancy 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
Highland Park Conservancy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Highland Park Conservancy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 96% · 2022 71% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of Highland Park Conservancy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
81% of Highland Park Conservancy 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. Of the $162k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Highland Park Conservancy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Highland Park Conservancy 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 Highland Park Conservancy 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 Highland Park Conservancy Inc?
- Highland Park Conservancy Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,174 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($636,766). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Highland Park Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $852,174 in grants to Highland Park Conservancy Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Highland Park Conservancy Inc?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $636,766 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Highland Park Conservancy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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