Maryland · Nonprofit
Lost Towns Project Inc
Lost Towns Project Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,246 to it, the largest being Maryland Humanities Council Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Lost Towns Project Inc does
Mission
Promote facilitate and enable the preservation discovery academic study appreciation and stewardship of public and privately-owned cultural resources historic structures and archaeological sites in the Mid Atlantic.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
LTPs mainstay of its program is the engagement of citizens volunteers and students in the historical and archaeological inquiry at suites across the Mid Atlantic Region. Consultants oversaw volunteers and academic interns working on a multitude of research projects this past year including the laboratory processing analysis and curation of several significant archaeological collections; More than 110 volunteers have contributed 2,850 hours of their time to the project in the past fiscal year. This year LTP also expanded its support for academic interns This year 9 students received stipends to support their work alongside professionals as they earned college credit while learning valuable technical skills working on unique research projects.
$5,000 spent14% of program spendingThe Lost Towns Project LTP secured a grant through a State of Maryland Non-Capital Research Grant titled "Curating the Mayr Collection: Artifacts and Records of Archaeological Sites" which they are administering in support of research archaeologists who are curating a highly significant archaeological collection that was recently donated to the Anne Arundel County Public Archaeology Lab.
$3,156 spent9% of program spendingLTP supported an ongoing initiative to expand public awareness about Native American History under two related programs; Expanding the Native American Heritage Toolbox by adding interactive and downloadable 3D models of rare artifacts; and Hosting a series of public workshops with representatives from Marylands Piscataway Conoy Tribe to raise awareness about indigenous cultures historic and present and the impacts of climate change on indigenous archaeological sites in the region.
$17,900 spent51% of program spendingLTP continues to sponsored STEM-based fieldtrips and in- classroom work sessions for schools in the Anne Arundel Countys Public School Systems and supports the study and curation of significant archaeological collections in collaboration with the State of Maryland
$9,000 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,056.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $53k to $25k (−52%).
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 Lost Towns Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Lost Towns Project 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
Lost Towns Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
100% 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 Lost Towns Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
100% of Lost Towns Project Inc's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246 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
Lost Towns Project Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Lost Towns Project Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.
- Department of the Interior$48k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Lost Towns Project 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.
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lost Towns Project 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 Lost Towns Project Inc?
- Lost Towns Project Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,246 to it, the largest being Maryland Humanities Council Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lost Towns Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,246 in grants to Lost Towns Project Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lost Towns Project Inc?
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lost Towns Project 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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