· Community foundation
The Community Trust Foundation Inc
To strengthen the region by working in partnership with donors and community groups to: build philanthropic resources, connect donors to organizations/programs they care about, make effective grants that impact needs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $252,744 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $525,627 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $272,883 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WVU FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MUSIC AT PENN ALPS INC | $22,800 |
| EMMANUAL EPISCOPAL PARISH INC | $20,000 |
| ALLEGANY YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROG SERV INC | $19,000 |
| GARRETT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $16,500 |
| DEEP CREEK WATERSHED FND INC | $12,400 |
| GARRETT LAKES ARTS FESTIVAL | $12,000 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $11,369 |
| MT LAKE PARK HIST ASSOC | $10,000 |
| JANE GATES HERITAGE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - CUMBERLAND | $10,000 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| EVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MINERAL CO HISTORICAL FND | $10,000 |
| GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,725 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EHEVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO5× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +53% · 39% of their budget
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +5%
- GMGARRETT MENTORS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +17% · 86% of their budget
Funded once
- SGSOUTHERN GARRETT BAND BOOSTERS INC ATTN AMANDA BRAYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +145%
- RAROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING INgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +83%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBSone grant, 2021 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…
To foster an interest in the history of anne arundel county, maryland.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
Gcac's vision is for garrett county to have a vibrant and sustainable arts community for artists, their audiences, and the community at large. the arts connect our shared humanity, and transform individuals and our garrett county community…
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
Provide professional musical concerts and events to the general public on the delmarva penninsula.
County historical society providing for preservation and collection of materials relating to local county history. maintain and operate historic house museum.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
To encourage, promote, and support arts and humanities activities in kent county, md and the upper eastern shore region of maryland.
Historical library & museums
Promotion of tourism
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee and the most unlike its peers is Jane Gates Heritage House Inc Sukh Gates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT MENTORS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC ATTN CHERIE KRUG ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC AT PENN ALPS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSIDE BAROQUE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF CUMBERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM CO BOTTOM LINE ACCOUNTING ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK HISTORICAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds AGING & FAMILY SERVICES OF MINERAL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GARRETT BAND BOOSTERS INC ATTN AMANDA BRAY ↗
- Who funds GARRETT LAKES ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND SUMMER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Western MD Health Sys Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING IN ↗
- Who funds FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds DEEP CREEK WATERSHED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JANE GATES HERITAGE HOUSE INC SUKH GATES ↗
- Who funds Allegany County Library System ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SALEM CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAVALE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CUMBERLAND COMMITTEEIN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The Doug and Betsey Schwab and Family Foundation Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Kate Bill & Diane Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Delfest Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Community Trust Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Allegany Arts Council — 37% of income from government
- Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
- Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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