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NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,136,498 to it, the largest being THE JPB FOUNDATION ($14,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 157 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- The Gordon Foundationportfolio match
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable 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: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% · 2024 10% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $1.6M.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION’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
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 75% · 2019 63% · 2020 40% · 2021 63% · 2022 49% · 2023 78% — 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
29% of NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kurz Charitable Trust & Foundation 10018300portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Efrein Foundation Inc Co Fettmann Ginsburg PCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ariko Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johanette Wallerstein Institute 5607-00-43portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philip Lee & Elizabeth B Ellis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rei Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Remington Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record — $16.4M federal, $285 state.
- Department of Justice$9.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.9M
- Department of Labor$2.0M
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$232k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$285
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Recreation and Park Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,136,498 to it, the largest being THE JPB FOUNDATION ($14,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $26,136,498 in grants to NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION?
- THE JPB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 20funders 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