Minnesota · Nonprofit
PEOPLE FOR PARKS
PEOPLE FOR PARKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,478 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($6,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $0
What People for Parks does
Mission
Stimulate park system support
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2014 People for Parks granted $49,978 for various projects in the minneapolis park system. Highlights include $15,000 to fund the purchase of trees for the annual arbor day event at camden park. A matching grant of $12,500 to the friends of the wild flower garden to improve the walkway there. $12,200 to replace basket ball hoops in bethune and painter parks. In 2015 we disbursed $43,684. We funded the arbor day event at stewart park for $13,367. For the first time we offered a swimming scholarship program at a cost of $4,680 due to the high number of minority and immigrant children that die of drowning in our community. We also replaced the basketball hoops at beltrami park for $7,300. In several parks in minneapolis the basketball courts are so intensively used that the hoops wear out long before the board's capital budget can fund replacement. We have also had a "mini-grant" program for the last few years enabling a park director quickly move on a project priced under $500. We have continued to fund minneapolis arbor day in both 2016 and 2017 with $15,000 per year. Our swimming scholarship program continues and we also funded girls sports, particularly in the somali…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $130k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $800 → $3k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PEOPLE FOR PARKS’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
PEOPLE FOR PARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 PEOPLE FOR PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
PEOPLE FOR PARKS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like PEOPLE FOR PARKS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE FOR PARKS: 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 PEOPLE FOR PARKS?
- PEOPLE FOR PARKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,478 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($6,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE FOR PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $18,478 in grants to PEOPLE FOR PARKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE FOR PARKS?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE FOR PARKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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