Maryland · Nonprofit
Friends of the East Broad Top Inc
Friends of the East Broad Top Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $738k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Friends of the East Broad Top Inc does
Mission
Preservation and restoration of the East Broad Top Railroad, a US National Historic Landmark located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration Program: Restore, document, and maintain historic buildings and equipment associated with the East Broad Top Railroad, primarily at Robertsdale and Rockhill, Pennsylvania
$137,026 spentof which $117,767 as grants54% of program spendingMuseum and Collections: Develop and operate a museum in two historic buildings in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania, the former southern operating terminus of the East Broad Top Railroad. Acquire, organize, maintain, and display collections of historical equipment, artifacts, and other materials associated with the East Broad Top Railroad.
$93,447 spentof which $71,000 as grants37% of program spendingPublications: Publish a quarterly magazine devoted to the history and heritage on the East Broad Top Railroad. Publish occasional newsletters and maintain an internet presence to inform members and the general public of developments related to the preservation and restoration of the East Broad Top Railroad.
$22,847 spent$26,086 earned by the program9% of program spendingOutreach program
$232 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $253,552.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+21%).
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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $279 → $27k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Friends of the East Broad Top 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
Friends of the East Broad Top Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Friends of the East Broad Top Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 41% — 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
99% of Friends of the East Broad Top 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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Friends of the East Broad Top Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the East Broad Top Inc: 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 Friends of the East Broad Top Inc?
- Friends of the East Broad Top Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of the East Broad Top Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $57,780 in grants to Friends of the East Broad Top Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the East Broad Top Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the East Broad Top Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2024), 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