Michigan · Nonprofit
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,816,961 to it, the largest being JAMES AND SHIRLEY BALK FOUNDATION ($1,350,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $570k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Kent County Parks Foundation does
Mission
To preserve existing green spaces, protect the environment, and maintain and expand our parks with new land acquisition, using the land legacy fund and other financial and property resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Millenium park maintenance assistance - 14,731 other designated park improvements - 17,604 silver lake park maintenance - 29,406 grand river greenway - 47,775
$109,516 spentof which $109,516 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,516.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $4.2M (+88%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $135k → $186k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION’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
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 88% · 2019 66% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 89% · 2023 73% — 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
30% of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k 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
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,131 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,131 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: 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 KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION?
- KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,816,961 to it, the largest being JAMES AND SHIRLEY BALK FOUNDATION ($1,350,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,816,961 in grants to KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION?
- JAMES AND SHIRLEY BALK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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