Those chosen fund 50 trails, 49 planning projects for regionalefforts, 53 sports courts and fields, and 59 playgrounds.Philadelphia County is the largest beneficiary with an aggregate ofapproximately $1.6 million split among four entities. Of those, thecity itself is granted $600,000 for the renovation and furtherdevelopment of three parks: Cedar, Pleasant Hill and Three Bears, achildren's park in Society Hill. This represents the largest singlegrant of all 242.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is granted $250,000 forrenovation of its landscape. Another $300,000 is granted to thePhiladelphia Authority for Industrial Development for the Greenwaytrail through the Navy Yard, and the Schuylkill River DevelopmentCorp. obtained $400,000 for development of the Tidal SchuylkillRiver Trail between the University Avenue and Grays Ferrybridges.

Most individual grants do not exceed five figures. Among theexceptions are $250,000 to the Appalachian Trail Conference forfurther development of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail inCumberland County, and $275,000 to Cheltenham Twp. in MontgomeryCounty for stream bank stabilization at Tookany Creek Park and thecontrol or eradication of the invasive Japanese Knotweed andHoneysuckle species.