Texas · Nonprofit
Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation
Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,904,394 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($3,133,311). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $82M
What Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to provide free programming and educational opportunities for the enrichment of the lives of our visitors, to showcase the multitude of cultures and talents Dallas has to offer, and to serve as a town square where citizens congregate and create traditions together. The 5.4-acre Park relies on contributions from donors to keep it clean, safe and active for more than 2 million visitors each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Klyde warren park offers the over 2 million visitors annually with 1,300 free programs and events. These events include fitness classes, live music, children's activities, movie nights and holiday celebrations. In addition, the park provides table tennis, foosball, badminton, and a dog park. The park has become an oasis in the heart of dallas, providing connectivity between downtown and uptown communities. The uniqueness of its landscape makes it a perfect venue for public and private events. The park has had tremendous economic impact on the area, specifically the many residential and office buildings surrounding it. The foundation has substantially begun design development of phase ii of klyde warren park, which is intended to provide additional open space, event space and retail on two separate deck structures over woodall rodgers freeway. The project is a collaboration between the foundation and various governmental organizations including the city and the texas department of transportation. The foundation is leading the capital campaign and the design development of phase ii. Additionally, in 2022, the foundation completed its renovation of the children's park, and a…
$4,781,177 spent$3,194,882 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,781,177.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $60M to $80M (+32%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 18% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kathryn Sawers
President & CEO
Board chair
Jody Grant
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $174k → $929k.
13 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 39% · 2020 52% · 2021 42% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% — 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.
How long its funders stay
28% of Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of Woodall Rodgers Park 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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Woodall Rodgers Park 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation?
- Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,904,394 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($3,133,311). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $6,904,394 in grants to Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,133,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Woodall Rodgers Park 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing