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.
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· 3,119 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundationportfolio match
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio match
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 146 organizations near you
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Delta Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Openlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The F1 Key Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- My Good Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rivian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morton Arboretumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wander Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PARKS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing