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Parks & Trails New York Inc

Parks & Trails New York Inc (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,053,908 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($431,450). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.7M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$899k
22/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Parks & Trails New York Inc does

Mission

Parks & Trails New York, Inc. is a statewide corporation whose mission is to expand, protect, and promote a network of parks, trails, and open spaces throughout the

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support protection of parks and historic sites and creation of new parks, greenways, rail trails, and canal trails, by increasing public awareness and providing technical assistance.

    $4,779,001 spentof which $2,687,369 as grants$746,168 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,779,001.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 118 ($1.7M) Expenses 117 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 145 ($2.1M) Expenses 138 ($1.9M) Net assets 119 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 89 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 111 ($1.6M) Expenses 127 ($1.8M) Net assets 92 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 146 ($2.1M) Expenses 139 ($2.0M) Net assets 83 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 251 ($3.6M) Expenses 245 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 328 ($4.7M) Expenses 358 ($5.0M) Net assets 73 ($899k)
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Revenue (328)Expenses (358)Net assets (73)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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $1.4M (−66%).

$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$1.3M
$1.8M
$2.4M
$4.1M
$1.4M
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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: 2017 27% · 2018 40% · 2019 47% · 2020 29% · 2021 67% · 2022 47% · 2023 62% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of Parks & Trails New York Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 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.

$33k
’17
$58k
’18
$151k
’19
$85k
’20
−$180k
’21
$149k
’22
$169k
’23
−$319k
’24
0.5
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.

Chief executive

Paul Steely White

Executive Director

Board chair

Jeffrey Bender

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed2526232223242423
Joined·+2+6+3+2+2+7+2
No longer listed·1941173
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $15k → $156k.

7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 & Trails New York Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 & Trails New York Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 & Trails New York Inc.

41%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 58% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 66% · 2023 64% — 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

45% of Parks & Trails New York Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Parks & Trails New York Inc draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
DE
NC
DC
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Parks & Trails New York Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc?
Parks & Trails New York Inc (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,053,908 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($431,450). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Parks & Trails New York Inc have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,053,908 in grants to Parks & Trails New York Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Parks & Trails New York Inc?
THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $431,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Parks & Trails New York Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 37 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