Indiana · Nonprofit
LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC
LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Lake Heritage Parks Foundation Inc does
Mission
Support of the lake county parts dept
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided funds to improve various Lake County parks
$902,326 spent$247,991 earned by the program96% of program spendingProvided awards and scholarships to employees of the Lake County Parks Department. Provided funds to the lake County Parks Department and the Lake County Veterans Committee
$22,283 spent2% of program spendingCompensated an Executive Director and a Project Manager. Attended conferences and conventions.
$20,033 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $944,642.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $3.5M (+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.
4% of LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Chris Landgrave
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION 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
LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
“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
LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION 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 LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,000 in grants to LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE HERITAGE PARKS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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