Maryland · Nonprofit
PARKS AND PEOPLE INC
PARKS AND PEOPLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,342,880 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($1,285,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Parks and People Inc does
Mission
To improve baltimore through green space and education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization helps communities to improve the physical, social, and environmental quality of their neighborhoods through the improvement of and providing access to green spaces.
$4,390,502 spent79% of program spendingThe organization offer a six-week summer program to any rising 1st 5th grade students who is attending a baltimore city school. The program focuses on literacy and steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) activities, helping students develop positive behavior and resilience. Outdoor activities, including visits to baltimore's parks, further enhance the program, fostering environmental awareness and academic improvement, as supported by research on the benefits of outdoor education.
$1,168,229 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,558,731.
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 2018 to 2019, from $20M to $15M (−28%).
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 54% · 2018 31% · 2019 49% · 2020 54% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of PARKS AND PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Aaron Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.5M.
13 of 98 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 PARKS AND PEOPLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
PARKS AND PEOPLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
46% 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 PARKS AND PEOPLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 15% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 30% · 2023 40% — 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 PARKS AND PEOPLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
72% of PARKS AND PEOPLE 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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PARKS AND PEOPLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PARKS AND PEOPLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $1.6M federal, $1.3M state.
- Department of Commerce$1.3M
- Department of Agriculture$211k
- Environmental Protection Agency$73k
- Grant$1.3M
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 PARKS AND PEOPLE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARKS AND PEOPLE 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 PARKS AND PEOPLE INC?
- PARKS AND PEOPLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,342,880 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($1,285,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARKS AND PEOPLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $9,342,880 in grants to PARKS AND PEOPLE INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARKS AND PEOPLE INC?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARKS AND PEOPLE 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 98 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