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FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION

EIN 83-2718376 HUNTSVILLE, AL

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Revenue 2023
$1,174,020
Expenses 2023
$1,149,595

Program services were 99.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C11
Classification
1000
Street
2411 9TH AVE SW

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 · 2023

Mission

Mission is to operate exclusively for parks recreation arts cultural and educational purposes while also supporting the City of Huntsville by providing parks and recreational opportunities and promoting educational awareness.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Friends of Huntsville Parks and Recreation FOHPR is organized for charitable and educational purposes. It operates exclusively for parks recreational arts cultural and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The mission is to support the City of Huntsville and to provide parks arts recreation and cultural programs for the public.

  • Skate Park - Friends of Huntsville Parks and Recreation FOHPR along with the help of the Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville and donors have built a skate park at John Hunt Park in Huntsville AL. The Skatepark project includes a state of art skatepark with restrooms pavilions sunshades lighting landscaping and parking.

    Grants $1,122,645 · Revenue $1,147,645

  • Jazz in the Park - Huntsville is a collaboration between the City of Huntsville Office of Diversity Equity & Inclusion Magic City Smooth Jazz and Friends of Huntsville Parks and Recreation. The event is dedicated to promoting cultural activities through various styles of jazz at no cost to the public. This iconic event provides premier jazz talent and activities for children in the Big Spring Park. The event also includes music education workshops for local high school students who can meet jazz recording artist and can learn more about Jazz music including improvisation section playing tuning intonation and more.

    Expenses $14,026 · Revenue $26,300

  • Therapeutic Recreation for the Special Populations - Various recreational and educational activities for the special populations are provided at no cost and include activities such as baseball games movies bowling summer programs at the USSRC Space Center Huntsville Museum of Art Topgolf Movie Theaters and Planetarium.

    Expenses $8,829

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • James Gossett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Scott Stapler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Ken Watson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Patterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ralph Stone

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,174,020
    Expenses
    $1,149,595
    Contributions
    $1,174,020
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,621,669
    Expenses
    $1,615,232
    Contributions
    $1,621,669
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025

Tax period
1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Principal officer
James Gossett
Mailing address
2411 9th AvenueHuntsville AL 35805
Website
www.huntsvilleal.gov/parks

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.