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PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY

PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,184 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($97,636). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$400k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$165k
Net assets
$551k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Parks Arts Recreation and Cultural Foundation of Thurston County does

Mission

Providing funds to enhance parks, arts, recreation and cultural activities in Thurston County, Washington.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community Grants Program. Provide $110,100 in Community Grants, large and small to build a stronger and more resilient region

    $355,002 spentof which $110,100 as grants$95,377 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $355,002.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($364k)2018 Revenue 79 ($94k) Expenses 134 ($122k) Net assets 86 ($312k)2019 Revenue 118 ($141k) Expenses 141 ($129k) Net assets 99 ($360k)2020 Revenue 46 ($55k) Expenses 82 ($75k) Net assets 99 ($360k)2021 Revenue 57 ($68k) Expenses 67 ($61k) Net assets 108 ($395k)2022 Revenue 216 ($258k) Expenses 147 ($134k) Net assets 130 ($474k)2023 Revenue 165 ($196k) Expenses 191 ($174k) Net assets 143 ($522k)2024 Revenue 335 ($400k) Expenses 428 ($391k) Net assets 151 ($551k)
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Revenue (335)Expenses (428)Net assets (151)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $395k to $475k (+20%).

$364k
$312k
$360k
$360k
$395k
$475k
$528k
$569k
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 15% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
−$28k
’18
$12k
’19
−$20k
’20
$7k
’21
$124k
’22
$22k
’23
$9k
’24
6.9
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.

202220232024
Listed221616
Joined·+1+1
No longer listed·71
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $41k → $12k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY’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

PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

73% 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 ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY.

59%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

59% of PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY'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 $68k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA
TX

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

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’20
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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

Against its field

PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 3%Fundraising 6%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY?
PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,184 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($97,636). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $165,184 in grants to PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY?
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is the largest funder on record, with $97,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 6 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