Friends of Fernhill Park

“In 2023 we paid $17,825 to Future Together for work on the playful learning play space, from the KABOOM! grant. We spent approximately $600 on printing and yard signs for events.”

“In 2023: From the playful learning grant, we so far disbursed 17,825 to our partners, Future Together, for the planning and development of our playful learning space. We will have spent the entire 73,000 plus the remainder of the $104,000 grant for building the Playful Learning space by the end of 2024. We spent about $6,000 on events in the park, including Love Your Park days, Earth Day, Movie night, Fall Festival, supplies for meetings such as chairs, microphone, etc. All events are free of charge. We spent about $2,000 for the Food Forest, including cabinets, trees, watering cube, etc.”

“We were awarded an activity grant from the City of Philadelphia in the amount of $6,000. (this was awarded in September 2023, but not disbursed until February 2024. )This is a grant we apply for most years. In past years we may get anywhere from 1,500.00 to 6,000. This year we also applied for and were awarded a grant from KABOOM! and The WIliam Penn Foundation in the amount of $104,000 to plan and construct a play space for children up to age 8. We had a partial disbursement in 2023 of $73,000. Our sister park donated most of the balance of a grant given for organic land management to help with expenses in our food forest. this came to 10,000 which was donated in September 2023.”

“We are a small volunteer park friends group. we generally have far less than $10,000 in our account. This year we were awarded a grant to imagine and build an educational play space for children up to age 8. This is why we need to do the 990 ez this year. in past we did a postcard return.”