AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N32Z

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 6160

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

• PARK IMPROVEMENTS: DURING 2024, APF CONTINUED TO MAKE IMPACTFUL PARK IMPROVEMENTS. THREE OF THE LARGEST PARK IMPROVEMENTS DURING THE YEAR WERE: DEEP EDDY POOL REPAIR AND LIGHTING, PAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD PARK BALLFIELD LIGHTING, AND REPAIRS TO THE ZILKER HILLSIDE THEATER STAGE. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR MORE DETAIL ON APF PROJECTS COMPLETED IN 2024. OTHER PARK IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS INCLUDED BASKETBALL COURT RENOVATIONS AT WALNUT CREEK METRO PARK AND GARRISON DISTRICT PARK AS WELL AS NEW PAVILIONS AT POMERLEAU POCKET PARK AND OERTLI NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.

  Expenses $3,239,925

• PARK ACTIVATION, PROGRAMMING, VOLUNTEERISM & PARK MAINTENANCE: APF ENGAGES THE COMMUNITY AND WORKS TO FILL THE GAP IN PUBLIC FUNDING BY PROVIDING VITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO KEEP THE CITY'S PARKS IN GOOD CONDITION. APF'S PARK ACTIVATION AND PROGRAMMING INCLUDES SPRING AND FALL IT'S MY PARK DAY, WHERE THOUSANDS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS COME TOGETHER TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN THEIR PARKS; THE PARKS SUMMIT WHICH PROVIDES AN OPEN FORUM FOR DISCUSSION BETWEEN EXPERTS AND STAKEHOLDERS ON IMPORTANT TOPICS; PLAYDATES IN THE PARK, MOVIES IN THE PARK AND THE ADOPT-A-PARK PROGRAM, WHERE COMMUNITY MEMBERS BECOME THE STEWARDS OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND HAVE THE OPTION OF OPENING A SPONSORED FUND ACCOUNT TO EFFICIENTLY FUNDRAISE AND REINVEST IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY PARKS. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ADDITIONAL DETAIL.

  Expenses $3,290,548

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $534,077 · Grants $534,077

• OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES INCLUDE $1,793,079 PRIMARILY OF FUNDS TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND APPROXIMATELY $200,000 IN MAINTENANCE COSTS IN ZILKER PARK PAID BY APF RELATED TO THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS (ACL) MUSIC FESTIVAL. THE ACL FESTIVAL IS THE LARGEST ANNUAL PARK ACTIVATION PROGRAM HELD BY AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION AND BRINGS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS AND VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD INTO ONE OF AUSTIN'S PREMIER PARKS EACH YEAR.

  Expenses $1,793,079 · Revenue $9,271,734

As filed on the 2024 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 · 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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $12,257,550

  Expenses

  $10,959,468

  Contributions

  $2,535,811

  Grants paid

  $534,077

• 2023

  Revenue

  $12,160,320

  Expenses

  $8,902,827

  Contributions

  $2,722,984

  Grants paid

  $570,830

• 2022

  Revenue

  $11,487,552

  Expenses

  $8,361,343

  Contributions

  $3,806,620

  Grants paid

  $602,900

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

  $9,510,875

  Expenses

  $6,137,762

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,633,164

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,292,360

  Expenses

  $4,462,230

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,041,575

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,046,183

  Expenses

  $7,871,929

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,461,858

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,010,983

  Expenses

  $4,981,789

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,518,078

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,098,185

  Expenses

  $6,512,481

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,008,018

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,836,154

  Expenses

  $4,251,663

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,576,438

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,545,799

  Expenses

  $4,886,962

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,379,737

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,306,720

  Expenses

  $3,650,455

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,348,871

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,560,217

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,696,210

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $943,165

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,136,032

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• CITY OF AUSTIN PARD

  $301,500

  2024 · LIFEGUARD TRAINING, GIVENS AQUATIC CENTER RENOVATION SUPPORT, & NATURE PLAY

• CITY OF AUSTIN PARD

  $297,000

  2022 · PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR CONNECTING CHILDREN TO NATURE PROGRAM

• DOWNTOWN AUSTIN PARKS LLC

  $238,196

  2023 · REPUBLIC SQUARE IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS

• DOWNTOWN AUSTIN PARKS LLC

  $125,000

  2022 · REPUBLIC SQUARE IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS

• CITY OF AUSTIN PARD

  $100,000

  2023 · PARD SCHOLARSHIPS

• ZILKER BOTANICAL GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC

  $75,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• ZILKER THEATER PRODUCTIONS-V

  $75,000

  2023 · SPONSORSHIP - ZILKER HILLSIDE THEATRE & STAGE REPAIRS

• TRAIL CONSERVANCY

  $37,500

  2024 · BENCHES

• FUN TIME TRAIN RIDES

  $32,520

  2024 · FREE COMMUNITY TRAIN RIDES

• AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMPS

  $30,000

  2024 · PARTNER SPONSORSHIP

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $259,019

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $252,500

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $174,800

  2023 · SUPPORT THE PARKS OF AUSTIN

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $114,775

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $111,518

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

  $97,800

  2024 · PROMOTE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES AND DESTINATIONS THAT ATTRACT AUSTIN-BASED TOURISM

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $63,090

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $54,465

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $52,138

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $46,107

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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