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FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS

EIN 77-0209249 SANTA CRUZ, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,779,709
Expenses 2024
$2,794,025

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
870 17TH AVE STE 2

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, IMPROVE AND PROMOTE THE USE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS AND OPEN SPACES FOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES TO BENEFIT ALL GENERATIONS IN OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY.

  • INVEST IN PEOPLE: TIME IN NATURE CAN IMPROVE MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH. HOWEVER, NOT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO THOSE BENEFITS. WE DEVELOP PROGRAMS DESIGNED WITH COMMUNITY TO BROADEN REPRESENTATIVE PARTICIPATION IN AND BENEFIT FROM OUR PARKS.

    Expenses $1,417,063 · Grants $463,748 · Revenue $748,805

  • INVEST IN PLACES: PARKS AND OUTDOOR SPACES SUPPORT OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE. HOWEVER, PARKS ACREAGE IS NOT DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY AND BASIC PARK UPGRADES ARE UNDERFUNDED. WE SUPPORT COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PARK IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGNS.

    Expenses $1,090,184 · Grants $463,747 · Revenue $574,096

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lilia Chagolla

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Francisco Paco Estrada

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lesley Harris Esq

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kim Namba

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sheila Peck

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Corwin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Hayden

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adriana Mata

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mariah Roberts

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,588
    From this org
    $133,588
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,779,709
    Expenses
    $2,794,025
    Contributions
    $1,440,746
    Grants paid
    $927,495
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,013,250
    Expenses
    $1,726,220
    Contributions
    $749,028
    Grants paid
    $96,495
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $887,109
    Expenses
    $1,053,410
    Contributions
    $887,109
    Grants paid
    $659,107

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $646,253
    Expenses
    $416,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,343

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $765,455
    Expenses
    $629,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,149

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $244,223
    Expenses
    $196,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,004

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Teresa Corwin
Mailing address
870 17th Ave Ste 2Santa Cruz CA 95062
Website
countyparkfriends.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • CITY OF CAPITOLA

    $875,514

    2024 CAPITOLA CAPITAL PROJECT

  • SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS DEPT

    $654,795

    2022 COUNTY PARKS IMPROVEMENTS

  • CITY OF CAPITOLA

    $84,678

    2023 BUILD TREASURE COVE INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND

  • SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS DEPT

    $10,772

    2023 COUNTY PARK IMPROVEMENTS

  • SIMPKINS FAMILY SWIM COMPLEX

    $10,694

    2024 PROGRAM FEES FOR POOL GUARDS

  • SCC RESIDENTS FOR CLEAN WATER FIRE SAFETY & CLIMATE RESILIENCE

    $10,000

    2024 DONATION TO CAMPAIGN

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.