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16. Spending by Selected Urban Park Conservancies 2012 Conservancies, nonprofit organizations that financially support public parks, are an increasingly popular park management model. Spending data for this sample is taken from the organizations’ 2012 IRS filings; it includes both operating and capital expenditures. Private Group City Chastain Park Conservancy Atlanta 1 268 $588,986 Piedmont Park Conservancy Atlanta 1 185 $2,852,136 Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Baltimore 1 6 $165,537 Emerald Necklace Conservancy Boston 5 835 $1,441,400 Friends of the Public Garden, Inc. Boston 3 82 $1,430,253 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Boston 5 15 $4,151,430 Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Buffalo 21 1,200 $3,495,535 Friends of Fair Park Dallas 1 277 $485,341 Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation Dallas 1 5 $2,659,858 Civic Center Conservancy Denver 1 12 $599,348 Detroit 300 Conservancy Detroit 4 8 $1,614,448 Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Detroit Buffalo Bayou Partnership Houston 8 Discovery Green Conservancy Houston Hermann Park Conservancy Houston Memorial Park Conservancy Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy 12 117 $5,915,457 45* $1,486,250 1 12 $5,385,345 1 445 $1,804,268 Houston 1 1,100 $1,084,081 Louisville 18 2,087 $1,422,159 Overton Park Conservancy Memphis 1 Shelby Farms Park Conservancy Memphis 1 3,200 $2,913,974 Battery Park City Parks Conservancy New York 14 36 $9,513,124 Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy New York 1 20 $1,409,704 Carl Schurz Park Conservancy New York 1 15 $545,509 Central Park Conservancy New York 1 843 $40,316,332 Friends of Hudson River Park New York 1 550 $410,316 Friends of the High Line New York 1 7 $19,904,976 Madison Square Park Conservancy New York 1 6 $3,159,490 Prospect Park Alliance New York 1 585 $12,487,641 Randall's Island Park Alliance New York 1 433 $7,754,723 Riverside Park Conservancy New York 1 330 $1,512,748 Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy New York 10 1,792 $446,117 The Battery Conservancy New York 1 25 $2,266,080 Myriad Gardens Foundation Oklahoma City 1 17 $1,321,734 Fairmount Park Conservancy Philadelphia 63 910* $2,553,581 Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Pittsburgh 8 1,700 $4,946,833 The Forest Park Conservancy Portland 1 5,171 $433,447 Brackenridge Park Conservancy San Antonio 1 246 $220,669 Guadalupe River Park Conservancy San Jose 1 240 $476,663 184* $1,210,906 Forest Park Forever St. Louis 1 375* $4,082,653 Trust for the National Mall Washington, D.C. 1 146* $12,172,549 * Portion of park(s) managed by conservancy. 30 Parks Acres Spending CITY PARK FACTS :: THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND

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