Iowa · Nonprofit
POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC
POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,650 to it, the largest being WILLIAM C KNAPP CHARITABLE FDN ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Windsor Charitable Foundationshared funders
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Delta Dental of Iowashared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
100% of POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC’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
POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 87% — diversifying over time.
“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
96% of POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 118 organizations that share them.
- Windsor Charitable Foundationshared fundersIA · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of Iowashared funderslocalIA · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parke County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Iowa Community Foundaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keokuk Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio 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 POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC: 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 POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC?
- POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,650 to it, the largest being WILLIAM C KNAPP CHARITABLE FDN ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,650 in grants to POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC?
- WILLIAM C KNAPP CHARITABLE FDN is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLK CITY FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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