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BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC

EIN 25-1659154 SAXONBURG, PA

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Revenue 2024
$83,452
Expenses 2024
$58,180

Program services were 95.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 533

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL, INC. IS AN ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE CONSERVATION OF A RIGHT-OF-WAY AND ITS CONVERSION TO A LINEAR PARK AND A 21 MILE RECREATIONAL TRAIL SUPPORTING BICYCLING, RUNNING, WALKING, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND OBSERVATION, HORSEBACK RIDING AND OTHER PUBLIC USES. THE TRAIL PROVIDES AN OFF-ROAD, NON-MOTORIZED PATHWAY THAT IS LEVEL AND ACCESSIBLE FOR CHILDREN, SENIOR CITIZENS AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

  • BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL, INC. (BFCTC) IS DEDICATED TO THE COMPLETION, MAINTENANCE AND ON-GOING USE OF A RECREATIONAL TRAIL ALONG THE ENTIRE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF THE ABANDONED CONRAIL RAILROAD EXTENDING FROM BUTLER, PA TO FREEPORT, PA. SINCE ITS INCORPORATION IN PENNSYLVANIA, THIS ALL VOLUNTEER CITIZEN GROUP HAS BEEN BUILDING A COMMUNITY COALITION TO PROMOTE THE BFCTC TRAIL AS A NEW LINEAR PARK FOR SOUTHWESTERN PA. BFCTC IS USING CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS TO ACCOMPLISH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BFCTC PATHWAY, COMPLETION OF BRIDGE MODIFICATIONS, AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY BY THE ELDERLY, HANDICAPPED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. AND FINALLY, A COMMITTMENT BY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS TO INSURE THAT TRAIL MAINTENANCE AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS REQUIRED FOR TRAIL OPERATIONS ARE PERFORMED, AND CONTINUE TO PROMOTE TRAIL USE, FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE PURPOSE AND BENEFIT OF TRAIL MAINTENANCE.

    Expenses $55,718

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Chris Ziegler

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Larry Griffith

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert J Ingoldsby

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Margaret Wilbert

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Albert Roenigk

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Debbie Sweetenam

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Art Borland

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert Selvaggio

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Meagan Concannon

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $83,452
    Expenses
    $58,180
    Contributions
    $46,583
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $62,464
    Expenses
    $26,714
    Contributions
    $25,735
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $63,074
    Expenses
    $26,532
    Contributions
    $38,777
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $89,215
    Expenses
    $81,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,746
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $55,087
    Expenses
    $70,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,099
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $109,197
    Expenses
    $29,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,015
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $59,541
    Expenses
    $91,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,308
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $66,130
    Expenses
    $61,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,727
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $68,924
    Expenses
    $23,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,296
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $95,294
    Expenses
    $165,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,940
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $93,764
    Expenses
    $69,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,830

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

  • 2022 Global Links is a medical relief and development organization dedicated to supporting health improvement initiatives in resource-poor communities and promoting environmental stewardship in the US healthcare system. These funds support their Maternal and Infant Health and Nutrition program in Nicaragua.

  • 2024 Support for a 21 mile rail-trail on the corridor that follows Little Buffalo Creek to Buffalo Creekand on to the Allegheny River at Freeport.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.