California · Nonprofit
PEOPLE FOR PARKS
PEOPLE FOR PARKS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,540 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $0
What People for Parks does
Mission
Mission: to create access to safe and vibrant play spaces to underserved los angeles neighborhoods by (1) unlocking schoolyards on weekends to create community school parks (csp), (2) empowering communitites and (3) advancing innovative local joint-use policies. Vision - a los angeles where every child and family has a safe park within walking distance. Values play, healthy lifestyles, safety, public space access, community empowerment and joint-use.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
People for Parks met its goal for 2019, maintaining six community school parks (csp) in under-parked, dense and low-income regions of los angeles, and carried out extensive community organizing to empower parents to take ownership of csps through participation and leadership in park activity. Pfp finalized the merger with los angeles neighborhood land and trust, underwhich pfp transferred all assets to los angeles neighborhood land and trust.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $39k 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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $35k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 76% 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
100% 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
82% of PEOPLE FOR PARKS'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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 (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,540 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEOPLE FOR PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,540 in grants to PEOPLE FOR PARKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE FOR PARKS?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,000 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 California. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 4 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