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← THE FUND FOR PARKS AND RECREATION IN BOSTON

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by THE FUND FOR PARKS AND RECREATION IN BOSTON.

Totals

Total revenue
$10,649,321
Total expenses
$9,501,618
Contributions and grants received
$4,335,622
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$5,464,698
Investment income
$796,387
Other revenue
$52,614
Total assets, end of year
$24,277,839
Total liabilities, end of year
$331,881
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$23,945,958
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,963,560
Management and general expenses
$2,538,058
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,963,560

Program services were 73.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,335,622

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PUBLIC GOLF COURSES

    total $5,464,698 · related or exempt $5,464,698

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $796,387 · excluded $796,387

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $317,614

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $265,000

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $52,614 · excluded $52,614

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,190,637 · management and general $2,190,637

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $221,596 · management and general $221,596

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $1,208 · management and general $1,208

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $132,134 · program services $132,134

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $795,747 · program services $795,747

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROJECT EXPENSES

    total $6,060,525 · program services $6,016,826 · management and general $43,699

  • 24b · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $80,918 · management and general $80,918

  • 24c · Other expenses: SALES TAX EXPENSE

    total $18,853 · program services $18,853

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $22,588,937 · end of year $23,746,711

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $541,275 · end of year $418,628

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $268,725 · end of year $112,500

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $443,601 · end of year $283,123

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $157,081 · end of year $48,758

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $78,672 · end of year $78,672

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $22,719,583 · end of year $23,867,286

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS WITH CLEAN, GREEN, SAFE, AND ACCESSIBLE OPEN SPACE IN MORE THAN 2,300 ACRES OF PARK LAND THROUGHOUT THE CITY INCLUDING PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, ATHLETIC FACILITIES, CITY SQUARES, URBAN WILDS, STREET TREES, THREE ACTIVE CEMETERIES, 16 HISTORIC BURYING GROUNDS, AND TWO GOLF COURSES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS WITH CLEAN, GREEN, SAFE, AND ACCESSIBLE OPEN SPACE IN MORE THAN 2,300 ACRES OF PARK LAND THROUGHOUT THE CITY INCLUDING PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, ATHLETIC FACILITIES, CITY SQUARES, URBAN WILDS, STREET TREES, THREE ACTIVE CEMETERIES, SIXTEEN HISTORIC BURYING GROUNDS, AND TWO GOLF COURSES. OUR DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 217 CITY PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS AND ATHLETIC FIELDS, TWO GOLF COURSES, 65 SQUARES, 17 FOUNTAINS, 75 GAME COURTS, 16 HISTORIC AND THREE ACTIVE CEMETERIES, URBAN WILDS, FOUR HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FIELDS, AND APPROXIMATELY 125,000 TREES, ALL COVERING 2,346 ACRES, 1,000 OF WHICH COMPRISE THE HISTORIC EMERALD NECKLACE. WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN 35,000 STREET TREES.

  • FUNDS, GRANTS OR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE USED TO PROVIDE BOSTON RESIDENTS WITH RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

    Expenses $4,992,940

  • FUNDS, GRANTS OR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE USED TO PROVIDE BOSTON RESIDENTS WITH RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS AT THE FRANKLIN PARK GOLF COURSE.

    Expenses $908,989 · Revenue $2,760,812

  • FUNDS, GRANTS OR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE USED TO PROVIDE BOSTON RESIDENTS WITH RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS AT THE GEORGE WRIGHT GOLF COURSE.

    Expenses $1,061,631 · Revenue $2,703,886

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ryan Woods

    COMMISSIONER

    Total calculated
    $165,941
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $165,000
    Other
    $941
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $165,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $941 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $165,941 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • CITY OF BOSTON

    115 · GOVERNMENTAL · MA

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
9 May 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202431349349302808

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