Year-End Giving 2026

It’s Your Park. Help us keep it extraordinary.

The Mosings started us off with $10,000 Teresa and Brent Mosing believe in this park. Will you join them?

“Wait… the city doesn’t pay for this?”

We hear that question all the time, on the trails, at the playground, and at the market on Saturday mornings. It’s a fair one to ask.

Here’s the answer: Moncus Park does not receive city tax dollars to operate or maintain the park. We’re an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so keeping these 100 acres clean, safe, and open to everyone is up to us. It takes $2.7 million every year to make that happen.

This year, we’re asking our community to help raise $50,000 for the daily care of your park.

$10,450 raised of our $50,000 goal

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What your gift does

$25Keeps the dog waste stations stocked for about a week. We go through 25,000 bags a year.
$50Gives a volunteer a vest, bucket, garden gloves, and a litter picker. Our volunteers give about 1,500 hours a year.
$100Keeps the flags at the Veterans Memorial flying clean and bright all year, in honor of those who served.
$250Covers one week of clean, safe play at the Our Lady of Lourdes Splashpad, which uses 750 chlorine tablets a year.
$500Helps our crew keep every trail, restroom, bench, and swing clean and safe for 654,000 visits a year.

How your park runs

City tax dollars for operations $0 Public dollars helped build parts of the park, but none of it pays to run it.

Covered by paid parking About 12% Parking helps, but it covers only a small slice of what the park needs.

Covered by donors in 2025 43% Neighbors like you are the single biggest reason the park stays open.

Visits in 2025 654,000 That’s a lot of restroom cleaning.

The rest comes from events, rentals, memberships, and sponsors. Every piece matters. See the full funding breakdown.

Before the gates open

Our team is here by 5 a.m., long before the first walker or stroller rolls in. While most of Lafayette is still asleep, they’re scrubbing restrooms, weedeating along the trails, emptying trash cans, and checking every swing, bench, and water fountain so your family can walk right in and enjoy the day.

When the sun goes down, the work keeps going. They’re setting up chairs, stringing lights, and getting everything ready for the evening programs and events that bring our community together. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s the reason everything feels so easy when you’re here.

So the next time you pass someone in a Moncus Park shirt, know they were probably here before you woke up.

Join the Mosings

Teresa and Brent Mosing kicked off this campaign with a $10,000 gift because they believe in this park and the people who love it. Now we’re inviting the rest of our community to help us reach $50,000.

$10,000 from Teresa and Brent Mosing
$450 from neighbors so far
$39,550 to go

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Gifts are tax-deductible. Monthly giving is available on the form.

Questions we hear

Didn’t the park get public money?

Yes, for building. State and hotel tax dollars helped pay for construction like the Farmers Market Pavilion, but that money can only build things. It can’t pay to run the park, so keeping it open is a separate cost we raise every year.

I pay for parking. Isn’t that enough?

Parking helps, and we’re grateful for it. It covers about 12% of what it costs to care for the park each year.

I’m already a member. How is this different?

Your membership helps keep the park running all year. A year-end gift goes straight to the daily care of the grounds, on top of the perks you already enjoy.

It’s your park. Help us keep it that way.

Every gift, no matter the size, helps care for all 100 acres.

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