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NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION

NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,565 to it, the largest being AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ($271,565). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$4k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$489k
Net assets
$-457507
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Norwood Park Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the Norwood Park Foundation is to restore the norwood house to its historic exterior appearance, rehabilitate the surrounding historic grounds and gardens, and repurpose the property to serve the people of austin as a premier, nonprofit and self-sustaining rental venue and community meeting space. The most significant activities of the Norwood Park Foundation since its incorporation have been the stabilization of the historic norwood house, stewarding of the norwood site in an ongoing manner, accomplishing all design work for the project, permitting the project, and raising money to complete the project. Form 990 - organization's mission the mission of the Norwood Park Foundation is to restore the norwood house to its historic exterior appearance, rehabilitate the surrounding historic grounds and gardens, and repurpose the property to serve the people of austin as a premier, nonprofit and self-sustaining rental venue and community meeting space. Form 990, part vi, line 1

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

In a public/private partnership with the city of austin, restore and maintain austin's historic norwood house, with the vision of hosting events to share the public park asset with the community in a self-sustaining fashion, and ensure its future protection.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($72k)2018 Revenue 51 ($78k) Expenses 164 ($118k)2019 Revenue 336 ($518k) Expenses 264 ($189k)2020 Revenue 10 ($15k) Expenses 504 ($362k)2021 Revenue 2 ($4k) Expenses 44 ($32k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (2)Expenses (44)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $418k to $56k (−87%).

$113k
$73k
$418k
$56k
$30k
20172018201920202021
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
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’17
−$40k
’18
$329k
’19
−$346k
’20
−$28k
’21
11
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed88888
Joined·+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·1010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $36k → $200.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION’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

NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

58% 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 NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 96% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

58% of NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $206k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

54%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION?
NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,565 to it, the largest being AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ($271,565). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $488,565 in grants to NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION?
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $271,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5 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