0001175813 2021-12-10 2021-12-10 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member conentoga:C000232593Member 2021-12-10 2021-12-10 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member conentoga:C000232594Member 2021-12-10 2021-12-10 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member 2021-12-10 2021-12-10 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member conentoga:C000232593Member 2021-05-26 2021-05-26 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member conentoga:C000232594Member 2021-05-26 2021-05-26 0001175813 conentoga:S000074583Member conentoga:Index1Member 2021-12-10 2021-12-10 iso4217:USD pure 0001175813 false 2021-12-07 497 N-1A 2021-12-20 2021-12-20 ~ http://conentoga/role/ShareholderFeesData column period compact * column dei_LegalEntityAxis compact conentoga_S000074583Member column rr_ProspectusShareClassAxis compact * row primary compact * ~ ~ http://conentoga/role/OperatingExpensesData column period compact * column dei_LegalEntityAxis compact conentoga_S000074583Member column rr_ProspectusShareClassAxis compact * row primary compact * ~ ~ http://conentoga/role/ExpenseExample column period compact * column dei_LegalEntityAxis compact conentoga_S000074583Member column rr_ProspectusShareClassAxis compact * row primary compact * ~ ~ http://conentoga/role/BarChartData column period compact * column dei_LegalEntityAxis compact conentoga_S000074583Member column rr_ProspectusShareClassAxis compact * row primary compact * ~ ~ http://conentoga/role/PerformanceTableData column period compact * column dei_LegalEntityAxis compact conentoga_S000074583Member column rr_ProspectusShareClassAxis compact * row primary compact * ~ CONESTOGA FUNDS CMCMX CMIRX 2021-12-08 CONESTOGA MICRO CAP FUND Investment Objective The Fund seeks to provide long-term growth of capital. Fees and Expenses of the Fund This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. 0 0 0 0 Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investments) 0.0100 0.0100 0.0025 0.0000 0.0025 0.0010 0.0550 0.0550 0.0700 0.0660 -0.0550 -0.0535 0.0150 0.0125 “Other Expenses” have been estimated for the current fiscal year. January 31, 2023 Example This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated (the Example for one year reflects the contractual expense limitation described above; the amounts for the other periods reflect the contractual expense limitation described above only for the first year of such periods) and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, under these assumptions, your costs would be: 153 1573 127 1475 Portfolio Turnover The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. Principal Investment Strategies Under normal market circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of micro-capitalization companies. Equity securities include common and preferred stocks, both domestic and foreign, convertible securities, rights, warrants and American depositary receipts (“ADRs”). While there is no limit on investing in foreign securities, the Fund does not expect investment in foreign securities to exceed 20% of the Fund’s total assets. The Adviser considers micro market capitalization (“micro-cap”) companies for this purpose to be those companies that, at the time of initial purchase (including the existing portfolio), have market capitalizations generally within the range of companies included in the Russell Micro Cap® Index. The Fund will not change this policy unless it notifies shareholders at least 60 days in advance. This policy does not require the Fund to sell the security of a micro-cap company if such company’s market capitalization moves outside the range of the market capitalization in the Russell Micro Cap® Index. As of November 10, 2021, the capitalization range of the Russell Micro Cap® Index was from $12.8 million to $4,695.1 million. For purposes of this policy, “net assets” includes any borrowings for investment purposes. The Adviser follows an investment style which seeks to identify higher quality companies growing through multiple business cycles. The Adviser generally invests the Fund’s assets in micro-cap companies with expected earnings growth that exceed that of the average of all U.S. publicly traded companies, where valuations seem reasonable compared to the expected earnings growth, where financial characteristics, based on fundamental analysis, appear to be strong, where (in the Adviser’s opinion) the business model offers sustainable competitive advantage as may be evident by market share or technological/product advantages relative to peers, and where management has an important ownership stake in the company that aligns their incentives with those of shareholders. The Adviser uses a bottom-up approach in selecting securities. Bottom-up investing focuses on the analysis of individual company fundamentals while placing less significance on macroeconomic factors. The Fund may invest in securities of any market sector and may, from time to time, hold a significant amount of securities of companies within a single sector. The Fund currently anticipates that it will have significant exposure to the Producer Durables, Healthcare and Technology sectors. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Principal Risks You may lose money by investing in the Fund and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund is subject to the following principal risks, more fully described in “Risk Factors” in this prospectus. The Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) and total return may be adversely affected for a number of reasons, including, without limitation, if any of the following occurs: <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%"> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 40pt"> </td> <td style="width: 40pt; padding-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Market Risk: The market values of securities acquired by the Fund may decline. Market risk may result from expected, real or perceived economic, political or financial events in the U.S. or global markets. The frequency and magnitude of such changes in value cannot be predicted. Certain securities and other investments held by the Fund may experience increased volatility, illiquidity, or other potentially adverse effects in response to changing market conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, lack of liquidity in the bond or equity markets, volatility in the equity markets, market disruptions caused by local or regional events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness (including epidemics and pandemics) or other public health issues, recessions or other events or adverse investor sentiment or other political, regulatory, economic and social developments, and developments that impact specific economic sectors, industries or segments of the market. These risks may be magnified if certain events or developments adversely interrupt the global supply chain; in these and other circumstances, such risks might affect companies worldwide due to increasingly interconnected global economies and financial markets. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="padding-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Equity Risk: Equity risk is the risk that a security’s value will fluctuate in response to events affecting an issuer’s profitability or viability. Unlike debt securities, which have a superior claim to a company’s assets in case of liquidation or bankruptcy, equity securities benefit from a company’s earnings and cash flow only after the company meets its other obligations. For example, a company must pay interest on its bonds before it pays stock dividends to shareholders.</td></tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%"> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 40pt"> </td> <td style="text-align: left; width: 40pt; padding-left: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Management Risk: Management risk is the risk that the Adviser does not execute the Fund’s principal investment strategies effectively. Management risk is that a strategy used by the Adviser may fail to produce the intended results for the Fund or that imperfections, errors or limitations in the tools and data used by the Adviser may cause unintended results.</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Small and Micro-Cap Company Risk: Small company risk is a particularly pronounced risk for the Fund because it invests a significant percentage of its assets in the stocks of companies with relatively small market capitalizations. The securities of small and micro-cap companies may be more volatile in price, have wider spreads between their bid and ask prices, and have significantly lower trading volume than the securities of larger capitalization companies. As a result, the purchase or sale of more than a limited number of shares of the securities of a smaller company may affect its market price. The Fund may need a considerable amount of time to purchase or sell its positions in these securities. Some small and micro-cap companies are followed by few, if any, securities analysts, and there tends to be less publicly available information about such companies. The small and micro-cap securities may be traded only in the over-the-counter market or on a regional securities exchange, may be listed only in the quotation service commonly known as the “pink sheets,” and may not be traded every day or in the volume typical of trading on a national securities exchange. They generally have even more limited trading volumes and are subject to even more abrupt or erratic market price movements than are mid and large cap securities, and the Fund may be able to deal with only a few market-makers when purchasing and selling securities. These companies may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources, may depend on a few key employees and lack management depth, and may be more vulnerable to adverse business or market developments. Smaller company stocks may fall out of favor relative to mid or large cap stocks, which may cause the Fund to underperform other equity funds that focus on mid or large cap stocks. Moreover, the lack of an efficient market for the securities may make them difficult to value.</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Valuation Risk: The sale price the Fund could receive for a portfolio security may differ from the Fund’s valuation of the security, particularly for securities that trade in low volume or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. In addition, the value of the securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund’s shares.</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Sector Risk: If the Fund has significant investments in the securities of issuers within a particular sector, any development affecting that sector will have a greater impact on the value of net assets of the Fund than would be the case if the Fund did not have significant investments in that sector. In addition, this may increase the risk of loss in the Fund and increase the volatility of the Fund’s net asset value per share. Occasionally, market conditions, regulatory changes or other developments may negatively impact a particular sector.</td></tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 60pt"/><td style="width: 40pt">o</td><td style="text-align: justify">Producer Durables Sector Risk: The producer durables sector includes companies involved in the design, manufacture or distribution of industrial durables such as electrical equipment and components, industrial products, and housing and telecommunications equipment. These companies may be affected by changes in domestic and international economies and politics, consolidation, excess capacity, and consumer demands, spending, tastes and preferences.</td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 60pt"/><td style="width: 40pt">o</td><td style="text-align: justify">Healthcare Sector Risk: The profitability of companies in the healthcare sector may be affected by government regulations and government healthcare programs, increases or decreases in the cost of medical products and services, an increased emphasis on outpatient services, and product liability claims, among other factors. Many healthcare companies are heavily dependent on patent protection, and the expiration of a company’s patent may adversely affect that company’s profitability. Healthcare companies are subject to competitive forces that may result in price discounting, and may be thinly capitalized and susceptible to product obsolescence.</td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 60pt"/><td style="width: 40pt">o</td><td style="text-align: justify">Technology Securities Risk: Technology companies may be subject to greater price volatility than securities of companies in other sectors. These securities may fall in and out of favor with investors rapidly, which may cause sudden selling and dramatically lower market prices. Technology securities also may be affected adversely by changes in technology, consumer and business purchasing patterns, government regulation and/or obsolete products or services. In addition, a rising interest rate environment tends to negatively affect technology companies.</td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%"> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td style="width: 40pt"> </td> <td style="width: 40pt; padding-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Large Redemption Risk: The Fund could experience a loss when selling securities to meet shareholder redemptions. The risk of loss increases if the withdrawal requests are unusually large or frequent or occur in times of overall market turmoil or declining prices.</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="padding-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Investment Style Risk: A company’s earnings may not increase as expected. Different investment styles (e.g., “growth”, “value” or “quantitative”) tend to shift in and out of favor, depending on market and economic conditions as well as investor sentiment. The Fund may outperform or underperform other funds that invest in similar asset classes but employ a different investment style. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top"> <td> </td> <td style="padding-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in">· </td> <td style="text-align: justify">Foreign Securities Risk: Foreign securities markets may be more volatile and subject to less governmental supervision than their counterparts in the U.S. and are subject to fluctuations in currency exchange rates.</td></tr> </table> By itself, the Fund does not constitute a complete investment plan and should be considered a long-term investment for investors who can afford to weather changes in the value of their investment. You may lose money by investing in the Fund and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Performance The bar chart below illustrates the long-term performance of the Fund. <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_908_err--PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member_zGhpix7IpCT2">The bar chart below shows how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart assumes reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_904_err--PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member_zopIEJ4Imp82">As with all such investments, past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website: <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_907_err--PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member_zDcST5f7lxgf">www.conestogafunds.com. The Fund expects to commence operations as a series of Conestoga Funds on December 17, 2021, when all of the assets of Conestoga Micro Cap Fund, LP (the “Predecessor Fund”) are transferred to Institutional Class and Investors Class shares of the Fund. The Fund’s investment objectives, policies, guidelines and restrictions are in all material respects equivalent to those of the Predecessor Fund, and the investment adviser and portfolio managers for the Fund will be the same as those of the Predecessor Fund. The Predecessor Fund was not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and thus was not subject to certain investment and operational restrictions that are imposed by the 1940 Act. If the Predecessor Fund had been registered under the 1940 Act, its performance may have been adversely affected. Accordingly, future Fund performance may be different than the Predecessor Fund’s restated past performance. After-tax performance returns are not included for the Predecessor Fund. The Predecessor Fund was not a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and therefore did not distribute current or accumulated earnings and profits and was not subject to the diversification and source of income requirements applicable to regulated investment companies. Monthly returns since the inception of the Predecessor Fund are provided in Appendix A of the Statutory Prospectus. The Predecessor Fund’s <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_909_err--YearToDateReturnLabel_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zPEObBJFs8ob">year-to-date return through <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_906_err--BarChartYearToDateReturnDate_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_z0xfXZSSapKc">September 30, 2021 was <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_902_err--BarChartYearToDateReturn_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zQh9uANQlTMg">7.21% The bar chart below shows how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. As with all such investments, past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. www.conestogafunds.com year-to-date return 2021-09-30 0.0721 0.2328 0.7345 During the period shown in the chart above, the <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_907_err--HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zqgu1QwkFJv">highest quarterly return was <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_90F_err--BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zV4Hpcg22vI5">30.67% (for the quarter ended <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_90E_err--BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zX2pxVztzTv">December 31, 2020) and the <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_903_err--LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zwWBcUSU5Ljj">lowest quarterly return was <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_90D_err--BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_z3H4zslErHdk">-16.17% (for the quarter ended <span class="xdx_phnt_RGlzY2xvc3VyZSAtIFJpc2svUmV0dXJuIERldGFpbCBEYXRhIHtFbGVtZW50c30A" id="xdx_90D_err--BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate_c20211210__20211210__dei--LegalEntityAxis__custom--S000074583Member__rr--ProspectusShareClassAxis__custom--C000232594Member_zxXsnL5PrDC1">March 31, 2020). highest quarterly return 0.3067 2020-12-31 lowest quarterly return -0.1617 2020-03-31 Average Annual Total Returns The table below compares the average annual total returns for the Predecessor Fund before taxes to the average annual total returns of a broad-based securities market index for the same period. 2018-11-30 2018-11-30 2018-11-30 2018-11-30 0.7345 0.3842 0.4013 0.2176 “Other Expenses” have been estimated for the current fiscal year. The Fund has adopted Shareholder Servicing Plans on behalf of the Investors Class and the Institutional Class that will allow the Fund to pay annual fees of up to 0.25% (for Investors Class) and 0.10% (for Institutional Class) of its average daily net assets for providing services to the Fund’s Investors Class shareholders and Institutional Class shareholders, respectively. The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Trust will limit the Shareholder Servicing fees charged to Investors Class shares of the Fund to 0.05% of the average daily net assets attributable to Investors Class shares until at least December 31, 2022. The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses for Investors Class shares reflect the maximum 0.25% in Shareholder Servicing fees authorized under the Shareholder Servicing Plan for Investors Class shares and will not match the ratio of total expenses to average net assets in the financial highlights for Investors Class shares in the Fund’s shareholder report, which will reflect the 0.05% Shareholder Servicing fee limit approved by the Board for the Fund’s fiscal year ending September 30, 2022. Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to limit the Fund’s “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses” (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, other expenditures that are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of such Fund’s business) to 1.50% (for the Investors Class) and 1.25% (for the Institutional Class) of the Fund’s average daily net assets until at least January 31, 2023, subject to termination at any time at the option of the Board. If it becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to waive fees or make reimbursements, the Adviser may recapture any of its prior waivers or reimbursements for a period not to exceed two years from the date the waiver or reimbursement was made to the extent such a recapture does not cause the “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses” to exceed the applicable expense limitation that was in effect at the time of the waiver or reimbursement and at the time of recoupment.