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Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation

Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,332 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$67k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$67k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation does

Mission

The Vashon Parks Foundation preserves improves and promotes the Vashon Park Districts projects programs facilities and trails for the benefit of all existing and potential users through fundraising support and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Restart the Foundation after 3+ years of dormancy for the benefit of the Vashon Park Districts projects and programs including supporting fundraising efforts by community groups. Expenses in 2024 were primarily associated with general operational expenses of the Foundation.

    $1,483 spent
    100% of program spending

  2. n a

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

  3. n a

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,483.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Barbara McMahon

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Vashon Parks and Recreation 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

Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation.

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

85% of Vashon Parks and Recreation 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36k to it.

Operating margin98% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Washington

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Nationally

Hood River Valley Parks and Rec Foundation79%Whatcom Parks and Recreation Foundation78%VashonBePrepared76%Visalia Parks and Recreation Foundation76%Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation76%Vashon Community Care Foundation75%National Parks Action Fund75%Valparaiso Parks & Recreation Foundation Inc74%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation?
Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,332 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,332 in grants to Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation?
SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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