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Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage

Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,197 to it, the largest being TUW CATHERINE A STICKELL CHARITABLE ($67,865). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$424k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$130k
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($627k)2018 Revenue 140 ($224k) Expenses 101 ($141k) Net assets 113 ($710k)2019 Revenue 83 ($133k) Expenses 80 ($111k) Net assets 117 ($732k)2020 Revenue 102 ($162k) Expenses 79 ($110k) Net assets 125 ($785k)2021 Revenue 129 ($206k) Expenses 89 ($124k) Net assets 138 ($867k)2022 Revenue 124 ($198k) Expenses 118 ($164k) Net assets 144 ($901k)2023 Revenue 672 ($1.1M) Expenses 153 ($213k) Net assets 305 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 266 ($424k) Expenses 202 ($281k) Net assets 328 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (266)Expenses (202)Net assets (328)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
17
$83k
18
$22k
19
$53k
20
$82k
21
$34k
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$859k
23
$143k
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $22k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage’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

Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

38% 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 Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage.

52%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 64% · 2022 50% · 2023 45%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.

How long its funders stay

50% of Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.

MT
NY
PA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 33%Fundraising 3%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

PA
MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage?
Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,197 to it, the largest being TUW CATHERINE A STICKELL CHARITABLE ($67,865). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $130,197 in grants to Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage?
TUW CATHERINE A STICKELL CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $67,865 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Conococheague Institute For the Study of Cultural Heritage 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.

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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing