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TEACHERS IN THE PARKS

TEACHERS IN THE PARKS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,000 to it, the largest being EG & KLARA M SMITH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$197k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$194k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Teachers in the Parks does

Mission

To ensure all children have access to high-quality summer learning opportunities that enrich their educational and social experiences led by certified teachers in student's natural summer environments.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Enriching educational and social experiences during the summer to all children.

    $97,469 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,469.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2019 Revenue 177 ($116k) Expenses 151 ($78k) Net assets 177 ($88k)2020 Revenue 112 ($74k) Expenses 172 ($88k) Net assets 147 ($73k)2021 Revenue 55 ($36k) Expenses 143 ($73k) Net assets 72 ($36k)2022 Revenue 203 ($133k) Expenses 209 ($107k) Net assets 123 ($61k)2023 Revenue 230 ($151k) Expenses 205 ($106k) Net assets 214 ($106k)2024 Revenue 299 ($197k) Expenses 211 ($109k) Net assets 391 ($194k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (299)Expenses (211)Net assets (391)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $106k to $194k (+83%).

$50k
$88k
$77k
$52k
$65k
$106k
$194k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of TEACHERS IN THE PARKS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’18
$38k
’19
−$15k
’20
−$37k
’21
$26k
’22
$45k
’23
$88k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of TEACHERS IN THE 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

TEACHERS IN THE PARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

66% 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 TEACHERS IN THE PARKS.

34%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 100% · 2023 83% — 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

66% of TEACHERS IN THE PARKS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TEACHERS IN THE PARKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like TEACHERS IN THE PARKS

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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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Questions and answers

Who funds TEACHERS IN THE PARKS?
TEACHERS IN THE PARKS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,000 to it, the largest being EG & KLARA M SMITH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEACHERS IN THE PARKS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,000 in grants to TEACHERS IN THE PARKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEACHERS IN THE PARKS?
EG & KLARA M SMITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEACHERS IN THE PARKS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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