Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC
BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,532 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($54,436). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $210k
What Butler-Freeport Community Trail Council Inc does
Mission
Butler-freeport community trail council, inc. Is an all volunteer organization dedicated to the conservation of a right-of-way and its conversion to a linear park and a 21 mile recreational trail supporting bicycling, running, walking, wildlife conservation and observation, horseback riding and other public uses. The trail provides an off-road, non-motorized pathway that is level and accessible for children, senior citizens and handicapped persons as well as the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Butler-freeport community trail council, inc. (bfctc) is dedicated to the completion, maintenance and on-going use of a recreational trail along the entire right-of-way of the abandoned conrail railroad extending from butler, pa to freeport, pa. Since its incorporation in pennsylvania, this all volunteer citizen group has been building a community coalition to promote the bfctc trail as a new linear park for southwestern pa. Bfctc is using contributions and grants to accomplish the construction of the bfctc pathway, completion of bridge modifications, and other improvements required for the safety and accessibility by the elderly, handicapped and the general public. And finally, a committment by council members and volunteers to insure that trail maintenance and other administrative functions required for trail operations are performed, and continue to promote trail use, fundraising activities and special events for the purpose and benefit of trail maintenance.
$55,718 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,718.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $40k to $120k (+198%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $19k → $11k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
60% of BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $37k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC?
- BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,532 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($54,436). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $92,532 in grants to BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing