Illinois · Nonprofit
PARKS FOUNDATION
PARKS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,200 to it, the largest being T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $862
What Parks Foundation does
Mission
For the improvement of our state Park for now and the future
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Constallation has funded our environmental program to eradicate invasive plants in our park. Not the whole park but over half of park
$175,000 spentof which $175,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $175,000.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PARKS 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
PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of PARKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PARKS FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARKS FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- PARKS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,200 to it, the largest being T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $300,200 in grants to PARKS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of PARKS FOUNDATION?
- T KENDALL HUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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