Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710,494 to it, the largest being GREENWAY BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION ($6,400,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc does
Mission
See attached schedule othe conservancy has sole responsibility for managing all aspects of the rose kennedy greenway, including horticulture, programming, public art, maintenance, and capital improvements. We envision a vibrant, inclusive, and evolving gathering place that offers -healthy green space, -fun, engaging, and thought-provoking experiences, and -a testing ground for new ideas. We pursue our mission through -park care that sustains year-round beauty, ensures safety, and models environmental stewardship; -robust programming that showcases and supports the ingenuity and breadth of our community; and -temporary exhibitions of contemporary public art that facilitate artistic experimentation and speak to our current moment; -raising the standard of excellence for urban park management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See attached sch o-maintenance, horticulture, and rangersthe greenway is a contemporary public park in the heart of boston, welcoming millions of visitors to enjoy open space, gorgeous gardens, public art, and free programming. The greenway conservancy is the non-profit responsible for the management and care of the greenway. The majority of the public park's annual budget is generously provided by private sources. In 2025, the conservancy continued its exceptional care and improvement of the greenway: -the horticulture program is evolving toward long-term soil health through improved soil structure and organic matter management, reducing the need for intensive interventions. The conservancy has fully transitioned to battery-powered equipment and is nearing certified arboretum status, which could lead to new opportunities for recognition and funding. The volunteer butterfly monitoring program, which deepens the understanding of pollinator habitats and migratory patterns also expanded. -the maintenance and capital projects teams completed significant repairs and preventative maintenance across the park, achieving zero days of fountain downtime and ensuring a high-quality guest…
$3,877,350 spent$109,787 earned by the program62% of program spendingSee attached schedule o - programsprograms many popular programs returned to the greenway in 2025-the carousel was operational from march 21, 2025, to january 4, 2026, with a ytd ridership of 83,077-the greenway artisan market was active saturdays and sundays from may 5 to october 25, 2025, with 5000 reported visitors each day. -our greenway fitness program saw one of its most well-attended seasons to date, with 206 classes offered from may to october and attended by 2,604 participants. -our greenway food truck program featured 22 food trucks, with 73% of the partners being women, bipoc, and lgbtqia-owned businesses-our greenway beverage garden program featured night shift brewing at dewey square and trillium brewing at high street and atlantic avenue. Our beverage gardens were operational from mid-april through early november and saw over 70,000 purchases made. -more than 500 unique volunteers worked in the park to support horticulture, programming, maintenance, and research efforts. Group volunteers joined the conservancy for the first-ever rangers volunteer projects, which entailed detailed trash pick up in the park, and a deeper look at the ranger role in public safety.…
$812,727 spent$1,169,089 earned by the program13% of program spendingSee attached schedule o - public artpublic art our public art program hosted more public art installations in 2025 (both greenway-currated and hosted pieces) in the park than ever before: 1. Wesley wofford, fnss: "hope out of darkness", 2025 (hosted)2. Victor "marka27" quionez: "elevar la cultura", 2025 (hosted)3. Jackie amzquita, "slips of breath through cracks of time: to burn, to flow, to rise, to hold respiros que se escapan a travs de las grietas del tiempo: para arder, fluir, surgir y sostener," 2025 (new commission)4. Ecosistema urbano: "plantable", 2025 (new commission)5. Misa chhan: "year of the snake", 2025 (new commission)6. Ja'hari ortega: "big hoops to fill", 2025 (new commission)7. Maggie poost: "earthwriting", 2025 (commissioned publication)8. Jeffrey gibson: "your spirit whispering in my ear" 20249. Larissa rogers: "going to ground," 202410. Lani asuncin: "song/land/sea: wai water warning & binakol blessing," 202411. Zhidong zhang: "far away, from home," 202412. Ponnapa prakkamakul: "year of the dragon", 202413. Maria molteni: "gateway to infinity (an anti-monument)", 202314. Artists for humanity: "love language", 2023 (artwork created by a youth-led team from…
$992,087 spent$18 earned by the program16% of program spendingOutreach -completed a full communications audit, strengthening brand consistency, accessibility, and cross-department messaging alignment.-led a major greenway photography rfp, reviewing 100+ submissions, coordinating inclusive outreach, and managing finalist selection, interviews, contracting, and onboarding.-directed, designed, and executed the multilingual "explore" banner campaign, from concept through installation, advancing linguistic accessibility and supporting development through sponsor logo integration.-oversaw a complete visual branding refresh for the greenway and conservancy, creating templates for in-house use, leading trainings, and hosting staff sessions to explain the integration of new design elements and promote brand consistency.-managed the creation of the playway family engagement suiteincluding printed map, sticker set, winter edition, social content, webpage, and blogexpanding self-guided, family-friendly park experiences.the greenway continues to grow and expand its presence within the city of boston. Embarking on the implementation of an updated strategic plan, which will guide its growth and impact for the next five years, it is expected that each year…
$582,547 spent$20,500 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,264,711.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $31M (+13%).
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: 2017 27% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 33% · 2021 22% · 2022 36% · 2023 22% · 2024 22% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Chris Cook
Executive director
Board chair
Hilina Ajakaiye
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $939k → $2.2M.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 72% · 2021 26% · 2022 70% · 2023 67% — 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
54% of ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
96% of ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC?
- ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710,494 to it, the largest being GREENWAY BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION ($6,400,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $11,710,494 in grants to ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC?
- GREENWAY BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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