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LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY

LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,042,217 to it, the largest being THE HASLAM 3 FOUNDATION INC ($27,030,947). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$41M
Net assets
$17M
15/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lakeshore Park Conservancy does

Mission

Development, construction, and operation of park, including construction of facilities in accordance with the corporation's community objective of providing public recreation facilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide planning, development, construction, and administration for the park facilities in accordance with its community objective of providing recreation facilities. In fiscal year 2025, the organization incurred an additional 3,197,283 of project expenditures related to the development of the park. These expenditures are considered program related, however, these are capitalized as program construction costs on the balance sheet until project completion. Upon completion of each project, it is conveyed to the city of knoxville and recognized as program expense. During fiscal year 2025, a project was completed at a cost of 34,389,875.

    $34,931,068 spentof which $34,389,875 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,931,068.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 23 ($798k) Expenses 197 ($223k) Net assets 103 ($19M)2020 Revenue 11 ($361k) Expenses 227 ($257k) Net assets 39 ($7.3M)2021 Revenue 327 ($11M) Expenses 219 ($248k) Net assets 97 ($18M)2022 Revenue 176 ($6.0M) Expenses 5134 ($5.8M) Net assets 98 ($18M)2023 Revenue 395 ($13M) Expenses 315 ($356k) Net assets 168 ($31M)2024 Revenue 476 ($16M) Expenses 1720 ($1.9M) Net assets 245 ($46M)2025 Revenue 187 ($6.4M) Expenses 31026 ($35M) Net assets 91 ($17M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (31026)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $49M to $17M (−65%).

$20M
$20M
$7.4M
$18M
$20M
$35M
$49M
$17M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 32% · 2024 13% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.3M
’17
$575k
’18
$104k
’20
$11M
’21
$205k
’22
$13M
’23
$14M
’24
−$29M
’25
1.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Susan B Haslam

Chairman & p

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed88888889
Joined·+0·+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·0·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $19M.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY’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

LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 33% · 2020 98% · 2021 54% · 2022 84% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN
AL
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−451% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY: 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 LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY?
LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,042,217 to it, the largest being THE HASLAM 3 FOUNDATION INC ($27,030,947). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $41,042,217 in grants to LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY?
THE HASLAM 3 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,030,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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