California · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION
THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,475 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($93,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $50k
What The Friends of Chula Vista Parks & Recreation does
Mission
Part iii: organization's exempt purpose the purpose of The Friends of Chula Vista Parks & Recreation is promotion and advancing recreational programs in the community with emphasis in supporting the undeserved children and residents of the city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
1. The organization has funded the "learn to swim program" servicing elementary age children in partnership with city schools.provided for the "pumpkin smash" in partnership with city schools. This is a steam (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) where the participants learn engineering, math and practical skills in building trebuchets and participating in a pumpkin throwing event using the trebuchets. Provided funding to upgrade pickle ball courts at a city park for the enjoyment of the community and specifically senior citizens.
$41,867 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,867.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $90k to $36k (−60%).
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 THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION’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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $1k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 93% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION's revenue fell 83% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION
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.
Public support
100%
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 THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION: 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 THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION?
- THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,475 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($93,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $109,475 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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