- Revenue 2025
- $5,293,940
- Expenses 2025
- $4,861,989
Program services were 89.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 5755
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 · 2025
Mission
DRIVE EQUITABLE INVESTMENT IN OUR PUBLIC PARKS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
DRIVE EQUITABLE INVESTMENT IN OUR PUBLIC PARKS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $2,465,528 · Grants $2,203,204 · Revenue $2,100
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BALLARD PARK - CONSTRUCTION ON THE REIMAGINING OF THIS PARK BEGAN IN 2025 AND WILL BE COMPLETED IN 2026. THIS IS THE FIRST PARK THAT IS BEING COMPLETELY REDONE FOLLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PARKS FOR ALL, OUR 15 YEAR MASTER PLAN FOR OUR PUBLIC PARK SYSTEM. FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH THIS NEWLY DESIGNED PARK WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY IT SERVES.
Expenses $413,768 · Grants $377,268
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EVENTS - THE JACK O'LANTERN SPECTACULAR BEGAN IN LOUISVILLE IN 2013 AND IS HELD ANNUALLY IN IROQUOIS PARK WITH MORE THAN 5,000 ARTISTICALLY CARVED PUMPKINS ILLUMINATED AT NIGHT AS AN ORGANIC ART SHOW". THIS REGIONAL EVENT WELCOMES MORE THAN 100,000 GUESTS ANNUALLY, AND ACCOUNTS FOR APPROXIMATELY $2.8M IN ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR THE CITY.
Expenses $1,417,699 · Revenue $2,009,125
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OTHER PROJECTS - SUPPORTING IMPROVEMENTS TO LOUISVILLE PARKS & RECREATION WITH A VISION OF CREATING GREAT PARKS FOR ALL.
Expenses $71,777 · Grants $40,866
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Rick BlackwellRICK BLACKWELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cassie JensenCASSIE JENSEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michelle KingMICHELLE KING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Swannie JettSWANNIE JETT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ameerah PalaciosAMEERAH PALACIOS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Donna SchusterDONNA SCHUSTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Juan DavisJUAN DAVIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tamra HamadeTAMRA HAMADE
TREASURER (THRU 6.30)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dreema JacksonDREEMA JACKSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Max BridgesMAX BRIDGES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dominic ManeckeDOMINIC MANECKE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Alonzo RamontALONZO RAMONT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brooke PardueBROOKE PARDUE
PRESIDENT/CEO
- Total calculated
- $161,541
- From this org
- $143,402
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,139
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $143,402
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $5,180
- Nontaxable benefits
- $12,959
- Filer's total
- $161,541
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Jonathan VestJONATHAN VEST
TREASURER (EFFECTIVE 7.1)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $5,293,940
- Expenses
- $4,861,989
- Contributions
- $3,144,238
- Grants paid
- $2,621,338
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,838,123
- Expenses
- $3,095,673
- Contributions
- $1,678,351
- Grants paid
- $766,683
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2023
- Revenue
- $5,500,257
- Expenses
- $6,019,118
- Contributions
- $3,487,326
- Grants paid
- $4,139,010
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2022
- Revenue
- $3,490,062
- Expenses
- $3,123,236
- Contributions
- $1,596,290
- Grants paid
- $901,427
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,767,335
- Expenses
- $1,997,342
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,804,917
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $269,799
- Expenses
- $380,696
- Assets (EOY)
- $921,863
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.
Grants made
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LOUISVILLE METRO PARKS
$901,427
2022 TO SUPPORT LOUISVILLE METRO PARK IMPROVEMENTS
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LOUISVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION
$0
2024 INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC PARKS
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LOUISVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION
$0
2023 INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC PARKS
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LOUISVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION
$0
2025 INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC PARKS
Grants received
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$1,000,700
2023 Arts in Neighborhoods HeARTS
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LEGACY FOUNDATION OF KENTUCKIANA INC
$500,000
2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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$406,837
2022 Arts in Neighborhoods
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$272,300
2024 Arts in Neighborhoods HeARTS
-
$161,927
2024 Arts in Neighborhoods
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2023 C99 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PROTECTION AND BEAUTIFICATION N.E.C.*
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2024 C99 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PROTECTION AND BEAUTIFICATION N.E.C.*
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2023 C99 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PROTECTION AND BEAUTIFICATION N.E.C.*
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2024 UNRESTRICTED
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$13,350
2022 Grant to support AARP's Livable Communities initiative
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.