Our History

Mid-Shore Community Foundation was established on December 8, 1992, through the far-sighted wisdom of the United Fund of Talbot County.

Some $236,000 in assets had been left to the United Fund through the wills of Colonel Edgar Linthicum and his wife Catherine, to be used for either charitable institutions or needy and deserving residents in Talbot County.

Recognizing the need for a community foundation to facilitate and manage charitable assets for the Mid-Shore region, the United Fund Directors voted to use the Linthicum bequest as the nucleus gift for the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.