Park Districts · 370+ agencies

Financial intelligence for the parks profession.

Revenue recovery, cost-per-resident, capital reinvestment, debt health — peer-benchmarked against every comparable park district we can find. Free report card, instantly.

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What we measure

Eight indicators. One report card.

Park-specific metrics blended with standard financial-health indicators. Every number traces back to an audited CAFR or official state filing.

Park-specific
Cost Recovery Rate
Share of operating costs funded by fees vs. property taxes. NRPA benchmark: 30–40%.
Park-specific
Capital Reinvestment
Capital spending as a share of total — below 5% signals deferred maintenance.
Park-specific
Program Revenue
Registration, rentals, concessions, aquatics, fitness, golf — itemized.
Park-specific
Per-capita Property Tax
What each resident pays to fund parks — vs. peer median.
Financial Health
Debt Service Coverage
Net revenue ÷ debt service. Moody's minimum: 1.2×.
Financial Health
Debt / EAV
IL statutory cap: 2.875%. Track proximity to your borrowing ceiling.
Financial Health
Revenue Diversity
Herfindahl index — how fragile is your revenue mix?
Financial Health
Structural Balance
Operating surplus excluding one-time items. Moody's sustainability flagship.
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Deep coverage

141 Illinois park districts. Growing weekly.

ActiveNet integration

For districts using ActiveNet, we pull programs, registrations, facilities, and memberships nightly. 8-phase sync.

Brightly maintenance

Work orders and asset conditions flow into the capital-reinvestment signal. Defer nothing.

ACFR + B&A extraction

Haiku + Sonnet vision extract budget ordinances, audits, and scanned binders — no manual entry.

RAG-grounded AI

WeaverAI cites page numbers from your actual audits. "Where does the $2M capital number come from?" — it tells you.

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