Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION
VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,863 to it, the largest being United Way of South Hampton Roads ($16,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $397k
What Virginia Beach Parks and Recreation Foundation does
Mission
Support virginia beach city parks & recreation by leveraging private funds to support program & facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Foundation funded city projects - contributions are solicited to fund park various improvements to enhance the experience of patrons in the parks.
$4,321 spent10% of program spendingWater safety - contributions are solicited to fund water safety lessons for disadvantaged youth and providing subsidies to offer memberships in the recreation centers for families athat are economically challenged.
$14,930 spent36% of program spendingBench buddy bench procurement, installation & plaques - contributions are solicited to fund the placement of benches where needed in city parks providing the donor the opportunity to honor or memorialize while providing the city with the added infrastructure of benches to enhance the experience of patrons in the parks.
$1,567 spent4% of program spendingTree buddy planting & plaques - contributions are solicited to fund the planting of trees where needed in city parks providing the donor the opportunity to honor or memorialize while providing the city with selective additions to the city's tree canopy while enhancing the beauty of the parks and enhancing the experience of patrons in the park.
$20,563 spent50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,381.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $249k to $441k (+77%).
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 VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $17k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VIRGINIA BEACH 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
VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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.
Against its field
VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION 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 Virginia
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION 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 VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION?
- VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,863 to it, the largest being United Way of South Hampton Roads ($16,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,863 in grants to VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION?
- United Way of South Hampton Roads is the largest funder on record, with $16,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA BEACH PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 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