Texas · Nonprofit
Travis County Parks Foundation
Travis County Parks Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $194k
What Travis County Parks Foundation does
Mission
To create a powerful community resource that increases awareness, engagement and community support for Travis County parks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Travis County Parks Foundation (TCPF) expanded awareness, engagement, and stewardship across 27 parks spanning more than 13,000 acres. TCPF hosted the annual For the Love of Parks Festival, welcoming over 2,000 attendees and introducing many first-time visitors to the Travis County parks system. Through coordinated email, social media, and partner outreach, TCPF strengthened its Discover Your Parks campaign and increased digital engagement countywide. The organization finalized and promoted the Travis County Greenways StoryMap to build public understanding of a planned 70-mile greenway network and continued collaboration on the Colorado River Trail corridor. TCPF expanded its Night Sky Program with increased staff capacity and multiple public star parties and educational programs serving residents of all ages. The Foundation laid the foundation for the Park Stewards Program, including volunteer stewardship days to support trail maintenance, habitat restoration, and park improvements. Through strategic partnerships and private fundraising, TCPF strengthened its role as the nonprofit partner supporting access to nature and long-term investment in Travis County Parks.
$240,440 spentof which $1,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $240,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $153k to $236k (+55%).
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: 2024 1% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
141% of Travis County Parks Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $62k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Travis County 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
Travis County Parks Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
68% 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 Travis County Parks Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 32% — 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
Travis County Parks Foundation draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Travis County Parks Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Travis County 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Travis County 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 Travis County Parks Foundation?
- Travis County Parks Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Travis County Parks Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $280,134 in grants to Travis County Parks Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Travis County Parks Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $49,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Travis County Parks Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15 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