Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Whitemarsh Foundation
The Whitemarsh Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,120 to it, the largest being The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable ($132,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $819k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $586k
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Whitemarsh Foundation does
Mission
To retain and protect the natural, scenic, agricultural or open space values of real estate, to assure the availability of real property for agricultural or open space use, and in particular to preserve Erdenheim Farm located in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, PA under the same meticulous stewardship of its late owner, F Eugene Dixon.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission is to retain and protect the natural, scenic, agricultural or open space values of real estate, to assure the availability of real property for agricultural or open space use, to further open space education and preservation within the Whitemarsh Valley, and in particular to preserve Erdenheim Farm located in Whitemarsh Township under the same meticulous stewardship of its late owner, F Eugene Dixon. The farm affords special and unique scenic vistas and agricultural landscapes that have been enjoyed and highly valued by generations of area residents, amid increasing suburban development in surrounding communities.
$608,208 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $608,208.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $13M (+12%).
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.
50% of The Whitemarsh Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Maura McCarthy
Executive Director
Board chair
Bruce Ficken
Chair Person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $38k → $188k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 The Whitemarsh Foundation’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
The Whitemarsh Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 The Whitemarsh Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 90% · 2019 55% · 2020 74% · 2021 39% · 2022 39% · 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
18% of The Whitemarsh Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
The Whitemarsh Foundation draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
The Whitemarsh Foundation has grown faster than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Whitemarsh Foundation
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 The Whitemarsh Foundation: 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 The Whitemarsh Foundation?
- The Whitemarsh Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,120 to it, the largest being The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable ($132,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Whitemarsh Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $586,120 in grants to The Whitemarsh Foundation, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Whitemarsh Foundation?
- The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable is the largest funder on record, with $132,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Whitemarsh Foundation 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.
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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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing