Maryland · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,984 to it, the largest being Greater Washington Community Foundation ($171,849). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio match
- Chesapeake Bay Trustportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 4% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $4k → $39k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 90% · 2020 39% · 2021 58% · 2022 96% · 2023 64% — 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
33% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
70% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chesapeake Bay Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regis Synan Family Foundation LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clyfford Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John O Mitchell Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Watson Stone Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brown Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of MontgomerlocalMD · funds 136 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTGOMERY COUNTY 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,984 to it, the largest being Greater Washington Community Foundation ($171,849). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $470,984 in grants to MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC?
- Greater Washington Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $171,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing