Your Park. Your Community. Your Impact.

Think about your favorite Madison park. Maybe it's where your kids learned to swim at Goodman Pool. Where your dog made their best friends at the dog park. Where you cooled off on a hot summer day at the Rennebohm sprayground, or where teenagers found a safe place to belong at Warner Park's Teen Night.

Now here's something that might surprise you: If you own an average Madison home valued at $410,000, only $275 of your annual property taxes goes to parks. That's less than one dollar per park, per household.

Let that sink in. Less than a dollar per park.

Our parks are the heart of Madison—spaces where memories are made, where community happens, where every child deserves to play. But tax dollars alone simply can't create the vibrant, accessible, welcoming parks our community needs and deserves. They cover the basics, but not the magic.

That's where you come in.

When you support the Madison Parks Foundation, you're not just writing a check. You're creating opportunity:

You're building accessibility. Like the new sprayground at Rennebohm Park that welcomes children of all abilities, or the accessible playgrounds that ensure every child can play alongside their friends.

You're opening doors. Through swimming scholarships at Goodman Pool—our city's only community pool—you're giving kids who couldn't otherwise afford it the chance to learn water safety and beat the summer heat.

You're creating belonging. The K.N.O.W. (Kids Need Opportunities at Warner) program serves youth ages 11 to 21 with free activities like Teen Night, Family Fun Night, fishing programs, 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, and open gym time. For some kids, these programs provide not just community connection, but their only hot meal of the day.

You're expanding joy. More dog parks mean more wagging tails and happier neighbors. Beautification projects mean more beautiful spaces for all of us to enjoy. Special events mean more reasons to celebrate together.

The best communities aren't built by government alone, or by individuals alone. They're built together. The Madison Parks Foundation represents that crucial public-private partnership—bridging the gap between what tax dollars can provide and what our community truly needs. And yes, your donation is tax-deductible, making it easier to support the places that make Madison home.

Less Than One Dollar Per Park

We'll say it again because it matters: less than one dollar per park, per household.

But imagine if every household gave just a little more. Imagine the spraygrounds, the scholarships, the safe spaces, the accessible playgrounds, the community connections we could create together.

Your donation doesn't just enhance parks. It enhances lives.

Ready to make an impact? Please donate today.

Because great parks don't just happen. They're built by people like you.