Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,900 to it, the largest being ELMER E NAUGLE FOUNDATION 001531 ($22,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS has grown faster than half of the 2,054 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporationlocalportfolio match
- The United Way of the Shippensburg Areashared funderslocal
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
92% of CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS raised.
From the IRS filings of CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS’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
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of the Shippensburg Areashared funderslocalPA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · funds 13 organizations near you
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parks & Trails New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Happy Valley Adventure Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Battlefield Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Forest Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Trail Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS?
- CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,900 to it, the largest being ELMER E NAUGLE FOUNDATION 001531 ($22,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,900 in grants to CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS?
- ELMER E NAUGLE FOUNDATION 001531 is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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