New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,109,159 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($549,786). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What New Yorkers for Parks does
Mission
New Yorkers for Parks (ny4p) is the citywide independent organization championing quality parks and open spaces for all new yorkers in all neighborhoods through an integrated approach of research, advocacy and strategic partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Daffodil project - the daffodil project is the largest volunteer planting initiative in the city's history. Over nine million free daffodil bulbs have been distributed by ny4p since 2001 and planted in public parks and open spaces citywide.
$286,177 spent39% of program spendingCommunity outreach and advocacy - ny4p's community outreach seeks to build and strengthen a grassroots network that can work on its own and with ny4p to advocate on parks budgeting and other park and open space policy issues. Ny4p led and continued to build a city-wide coalition of park stakeholders that advocated for strategic increases and maintenance of prior budget gains in the new york city parks agency budget for the following fiscal year. Ny4p also provides a variety of resources to educate and empower local advocates. Ny4p uses its research findings as a foundation for advocacy to promote adequate and equitable distribution of resources throughout the city's park system, and transparency and public participation in policy and budget decisions around parks and open space issues.
$255,853 spent35% of program spendingResearch and policy - ny4p conducts research and develops tangible recommendations around its findings related to park and open space development, access, management, equity, and sustainability. Sample research, activities and toolkit reports include research in connection with an updated community district open space profile series, research conducted in partnership with a peer organization on the impact of development on open space and light, and issue-based research on a variety of topics.
$195,341 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $737,371.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $1.1M (−29%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Adam Ganser
Executive director
Board chair
Paul Gottsegen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $332k → $550k.
8 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
37% 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 NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 27% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — 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
58% of NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS'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
87% of NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $840k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Coalition for NYC Parks LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS?
- NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,109,159 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($549,786). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $4,109,159 in grants to NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $549,786 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 61 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