Columbus Recreation and Parks Foundation

Analysis

Columbus Recreation and Parks Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbus Recreation and Parks Foundation reported income of $829k and spending of $665k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $701k to $829k (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Columbus Recreation and Parks Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ecology Action Center ($827k), Cape Fear River Watch ($829k) and Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust Inc ($827k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.