Maryland · Nonprofit
Garrett County Trails Inc
Garrett County Trails Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,907 to it, the largest being FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Garrett County Trails Inc does
Mission
Garrett Trails is a nonprofit, volunteer organization dedicated to the development of a well used network of high-quality, sustainable trails that provide access to Garrett Countys historic, municipal, and environmental treasures. Garrett Trails believes outstanding trails are important to the economic development of the County and will promote good health and well being for County residents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Completed the necessary environmental and structural reviews with the Maryland Department of Transportation Recreational Trails Program to move forward with new trail construction in the Fork Run Recreation Area. This grant funded construction will connect the recreation area to developing communities on Marsh Mountain.
$4,741 spent67% of program spendingSupported the 2024 Garrett County Pathways and Connections Initiative with paid social media advertising and through newsletter distribution. Ads were directed to all social media users in Garrett County, increasing their awareness of the County survey circulating regarding future trail development between the town of Oakland and Herrington Manor State Park, as well as neighboring Mountain Lake Park and Loch Lynn. Garrett Trails paid for the ads with a volunteer contributing 20 hours towards design and distributionVolunteer contributions to social media campaigns highlighting general trail development and maintenance totaled thirty hours.
Collaborated with the Deep Creek Lions Club to share an all-terrain wheelchair with the public for free to increase access to local trails and parks. Designed and distributed adaptive recreation brochures and created a webpage highlighting trails and parks that accommodate handicap users.
$750 spentof which $750 as grants11% of program spendingCompleted a trail counter survey conducted with the cooperation of the Garrett County Government, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and Army Corp of Engineers. The survey data, collected and analyzed by a volunteer contributing over twenty-four hours, is included in a report published for other organizations and community leaders to use when developing outdoor recreation initiatives.
Engaged volunteers in seventy-five hours of trail work in Savage River State Forest, New Germany State Park, The Senator Paul Sarbanes Trail, and the Fork Run Recreation Area improving trail treads and drainages.
Volunteered supplies and personnel to multiple events hosted by other non-profits supporting health and wellness recreation for residents and visitors. Events included the Garrett County Health Fair, The Dove Center Mountain Maryland Dragon Boat Festival, Friendsville Days, and a New Germany State Park Trail Maintenance Day with The Friends of New Germany.
Through donations, Garrett Trails installed memorial benches on the Mosser Road Heritage Trail and the Acorn Trail in the Fork Run Recreation area.
$1,554 spent22% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,045.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $149k to $108k (−27%).
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.
100% of Garrett County Trails Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $93 → $79.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Garrett County Trails 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
Garrett County Trails Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
Garrett County Trails Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Garrett County Trails Inc's revenue fell 48% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Garrett County Trails Inc
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Garrett County Trails Inc?
- Garrett County Trails Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,907 to it, the largest being FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Garrett County Trails Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,907 in grants to Garrett County Trails Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Garrett County Trails Inc?
- FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garrett County Trails 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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