Texas · Nonprofit
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc (Texas) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,787,804 to it, the largest being KINDER FOUNDATION ($40,231,074). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 132
- Grants received
- $82M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Memorial Park Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Memorial Park Conservancy is committed to preserving, restoring, & enhancing Memorial Park for the enjoyment of all Houstonians, today and tomorrow. This supports public use, recreation, & education in accordance with conditions of conveyance to the City of Houston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Welcoming and Engaging Park Visitors: Memorial Park Conservancy ("MPC") regularly provides a diverse range of free and low-cost community events, spanning from cultural festivals to engaging educational activities. This year the Conservancy broadened its programming to emphasize health and wellness by offering free yoga classes, meditation, Pilates sessions and soccer clinics for kids.Continued on Schedule O.FY25 Highlights include:-Live at Live Oak, presented by H-E-B, consisted of four free events celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, Diwali, Lunar New Year, and Black History Month.-Celebrated Make Music Day with free performances by local artists. Visitors enjoyed family-friendly acoustic sets at Live Oak Court, serving as a beautiful reminder of the power of music to bring people together.-Held nine Star Parties in collaboration with the Houston Astronomical Society. These free family-friendly events featured powerful telescopes and knowledgeable volunteers, who helped guests observe the celestial sights.-Fubolito in the City, produced by Dynamo and Dash Charities, offered free 90-minute soccer clinics designed to engage children and young athletes.-Held nine Health and…
$4,297,135 spent$1,230,236 earned by the program49% of program spendingMaster Plan: In April 2025, Memorial Park Conservancy unveiled plans for Memorial Groves, and shortly after began preliminary site work and ecological restoration for the project. This new space will pay tribute to the Park's history while further enhancing its natural beauty and providing expanded opportunities for recreation, education, and relaxation. The project will introduce new space for remembrance and recreation, including quiet spaces for reflection, archaeological features, trails for walking and cycling, adult workout areas, open lawns for play and picnicking, a visitor center, and a large playground with an adjacent covered pavilion.
$3,192,908 spent36% of program spendingOperating and Maintaining the Park: The Conservancy operates and maintains 1,100 acres of Memorial Park's 1,500 acres, aspiring to implement the principles of exceptional park management and stewardship. The Conservancy furthers its mission by enhancing park amenities, backing forestry management initiatives, planting native species, maintaining both natural and paved trails, and tending to landscaped areas within the Park.Continued on Schedule O.FY25 Highlights include:-Vale Asche Playground Area improvements such as a new swing set beds with safety surfacing, new wood installed on picnic tables, and installation of parking blocks.-Stretching Deck Improvements such as a new deck, fitness equipment, additional water fountain, and new trees. -Automatic gates installed at Running Complex and Picnic Loop.-Safety bollards installed on the Commuter Trail at Picnic Loop and the pedestrian path at Crestwood and Memorial Drive.-Over 50 trees in the Clay Family Eastern Glades and more than 30 in the Sports Complex were pruned to promote healthy tree structure.- More than 100 trees across the Park were fertilized using targeted amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to improve tree…
$1,279,882 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,769,925.
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 2017 to 2018, from $26M to $44M (+66%).
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: 2019 10% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Memorial Park Conservancy Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Veronica Gorczynski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $6.9M.
15 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Memorial Park Conservancy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 funders by total. 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
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 31% · 2018 58% · 2019 67% · 2020 20% · 2021 84% · 2022 45% · 2023 37% — 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
48% of Memorial 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
100% of Memorial Park Conservancy Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Memorial 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Memorial Park Conservancy Endowment · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc?
- Memorial Park Conservancy Inc (Texas) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,787,804 to it, the largest being KINDER FOUNDATION ($40,231,074). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Memorial Park Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $81,787,804 in grants to Memorial Park Conservancy Inc, 85 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Memorial Park Conservancy Inc?
- KINDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,231,074 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Memorial Park Conservancy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 132 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