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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc

The organization advances the interests of the railroad construction industry by promoting continuing education, best practices, high ethical standards and improved communication.

$36k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$4.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$15k0%
FY20202$30k100%
FY20192$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Education$60kEnvironment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Tech University$30,0002n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$15,0001n/a
University of Kentucky$15,0001n/a
Surface Transportation Policy Project$10,00015%

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About The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc

How much does The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc give?
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $36,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (86%), Environment (14%).
Who are The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Michigan Tech University ($30k), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($15k), University of Kentucky ($15k).
Does The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc based?
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Inc is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $25k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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