Our History

The 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 the benefit, aid and assistance of the most worthy cases—in Talbot County, either charitable institutions or needy and deserving residents.”

Traditionally, the local management of charitable endowments is handled by a community foundation. Recognizing that the formation of such a foundation would facilitate additional 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.