California · Nonprofit
San Jose Parks Foundation
San Jose Parks Foundation (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,197,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($297,601). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-26280
What San Jose Parks Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the San Jose Parks Foundation is to advocate unapologetically for a thriving parks, trails, open space, and recreation system by securing financial resources, fostering stewardship, and promoting equitable access for all City of San Jos residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
2025 was a transformative period for San Jose Parks Foundation. Our nonprofit board has successfully revitalized its Board of Trustees governance structure, recruiting diverse leaders with expertise in finance and strategy. By streamlining programs and operations we have significantly shored up our financial health, moving toward a place of more organizational stability. Finally, we supported three local organizations in their transition from SJPF's fiscal sponsorship program to independent nonprofit status. 2025 also marked ten years of SJPF fiscal sponsorship of the City of San Jose's Viva Calle event, which opens miles of San Jose streets to walking, biking, and skating three times per year. The Board of Trustees continued to implement the strategic plan, focusing on fundraising and external communications as we prepare to recruit for the organization's next Executive Director in 2026.
$294,265 spentof which $1,000 as grants$18,031 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,265.
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 2022 to 2023, from $377k to $501k (+33%).
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 12% · 2018 7% · 2019 1% · 2021 23% · 2022 41% · 2023 23% · 2024 14% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of San Jose Parks Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Cayce Hill
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $43k → $348k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 San Jose Parks Foundation’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
San Jose Parks Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 San Jose Parks Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 39% · 2019 71% · 2020 37% · 2021 68% · 2022 19% · 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
40% of San Jose Parks Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
70% of San Jose Parks Foundation'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 $359k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $839k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
San Jose Parks Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like San Jose Parks Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 San Jose Parks Foundation: 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 San Jose Parks Foundation?
- San Jose Parks Foundation (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,197,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($297,601). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does San Jose Parks Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,197,302 in grants to San Jose Parks Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Jose Parks Foundation?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $297,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Jose Parks Foundation 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.
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 21 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