Maine · Nonprofit
Portland Parks Conservancy
Portland Parks Conservancy (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,021,210 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($215,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Portland Parks Conservancy does
Mission
The Portland Parks Conservancy's mission is to enhance Portland's parks and recreational programs by raising philantropic capital and engaging the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Conservancy raised $1.25 million to help build a dynamic new outdoor aquatics center, which we will help open in June 2026.
$29,431 spent16% of program spendingFollowing several years of Conservancy planning and fundraising, a new bike park was opened at Riverton Trolley Park, with additional improvements in progress including a pollinator meadow, wayfinding and interpretive signage, and major upgrades to the parking areas. The Conservancy is helping to develop a forestry managment plan that will create a more substantial, biodiverse, and equitably distributed tree canopy in our city. The Conservancy will help cut the ribbon for Portland Harbor Common, a beautiful new park on the eastern waterfront, after raising over $2 million for the project.
$39,955 spent$250 earned by the program21% of program spendingPortland Youth Corps engages dozens of Portland teens from varied backgrounds in intensive multi-week sessions that focus on science learning, professional development, outdoor adventure, and community service. The Conservancy coordinates dozens of volunteer events annually, focusing on trash cleanup, invasive plant removal, tree care, and trail improvements. The Convervancy organizes Third Thursday Walks, and supports and promotes partners' parks-based programming like the Portland Lantern Walk and Re-Forest the City.
$118,174 spent63% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $187,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $95k to $1.2M (+1113%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Portland Parks Conservancy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Jack Phillips
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $125k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Portland Parks Conservancy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Portland Parks Conservancy has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% 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 Portland Parks Conservancy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Portland Parks Conservancy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
61% of Portland Parks Conservancy'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 $402k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Portland Parks Conservancy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Portland Parks Conservancy receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Portland Parks Conservancy
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Portland Parks Conservancy: 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 Portland Parks Conservancy?
- Portland Parks Conservancy (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,021,210 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($215,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Portland Parks Conservancy have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,021,210 in grants to Portland Parks Conservancy, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Parks Conservancy?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $215,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Parks Conservancy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing