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The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$860kPublic Benefit$65kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$457k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $231k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$27,000
RAILWAY RESTORATION PROJECT #113$25,000
TENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC$20,000
TRI-STATE RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$15,000
UNITED RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NJ INC$15,000
COLEBROOKDALE RAILROAD PRESERVATION TRUST$15,000
IRON HORSE SOCIETY AT STEAMTORN INCORPORATED$15,000
WESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$15,000
FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$15,000
NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC$15,000
BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL RR SOCIETY INC$13,100
BLACK RIVER RAILROAD HISTORICAL TRUST INC$11,000
FOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
RAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INC$10,000
SAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INC: $31k → 6%LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSEUM: $15k → 15%COLEBROOKDALE RAILROAD PRESERVATION TRUST: $15k → 11%BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL RR SOCIETY INC: $13k → 12%RAILWAY RESTORATION PROJECT #113: $25k → 12%EBT FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 13%IRON HORSE SOCIETY AT STEAMTORN INCORPORATED: $15k → 13%PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $30k → 10%SAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%GULF COAST CHAPTER NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $21k → 16%NRHS WASHINGTON DC CHAPTER: $12k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE TRUST FOR RAILWAY PRESERVATION INC: $15k → 12%HEART OF DIXIE RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $12k → 7%ABILENE SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $27k → 16%IRON MOUNTAIN RAILWAY: $15k → 14%MID-CONTINENT RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 9%FRIENDS OF SP 4449 INC: $15k → 12%SUMPTER VALLEY RAILROAD RESTORATION INC: $15k → 16%RAILROAD MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $19k → 9%TENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $20k → 12%NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $29k → 14%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $15k → 5%FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 12%CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%MIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCITY INC: $15k → 17%ENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY: $36k → 10%ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM: $25k → 7%UNITED RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $15k → 4%WESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOP CORP: $50k → 18%KENTUCKY RAILWAY MUSEUM INC: $23k → 21%RAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INC: $25k → 6%LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSEUM: $15k → 15%COLEBROOKDALE RAILROAD PRESERVATION TRUST: $15k → 11%EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%PACIFIC RAILROAD SOCIETY INC: $15k → 14%ABILENE SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%TENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $20k → 12%NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 12%MIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $15k → 17%TRI-STATE RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 4%WESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 18%KENTUCKY STEAM HERITAGE CORP: $15k → 21%PACIFIC RR PRESERVATION ASSN INCORPORATED: $35k → 12%UNITED RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $15k → 4%PACIFIC RAILROAD PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $29k → 12%UNITED RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NJ INC: $15k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
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WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
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DC
AL
GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$865k · 26 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$865k
$451k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WM
    WESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +104%
  • AA
    ABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +94%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NS
    NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • E5
    ENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +3% · 27% of their budget
  • PR
    PACIFIC RR PRESERVATION ASSN INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bricktown Model Railroaders Association

Provide a museum of local railroads

Arts & Culture
2
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Southern Ca Chapter

Encouragement of the interest in railway history, the preservation of railway artifacts and equipment, documents and records, and to enable members to study railroad operations.

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3
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association Inc

The Museums mission is the collection, preservation,restoration and operation of vintage railroad equipment at its own facility and on the historic SD&A Railway for the education.

Arts & Culture
4
Back Mountain Railroad Club
Arts & Culture
5
WesternMD Railway Historical Society

To encourage the collection & preservation of historical material associated with the Western MD Railway and American Railway system.

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6
Arizona Railroad Historical Society
Arts & Culture
7
Lake Shore Railway Historical Society Inc

Maintaining the Lake Shore Railway Museum and all exhibits

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8
Ridgway Railroad Museum

Promote railroading history, with an operating railroad and operating museum

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Streetcar Museum

The Museums mission is to preserve and communicate to the public the experience of Minnesotas electric street and interurban railway history.

Arts & Culture
10
Colafax Railroad Museum Inc

A nonprofit museum dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and interpretive display of western wisconsins railroad heritage. this is accomplished through restoration of historic railroad artifacts, operation of a library and video…

Arts & Culture
11
Bridgton & Saco River Railroad Museum Inc

Preserving and teaching the history of the B&SR Railroad

Arts & Culture
12
Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum Inc

To provide a museum depicting the importance of the railroad industry to the economic development of the lakes region of new hamphire. the museum will display a model railroad and its routes within caroll county, new hampshire.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Railroad Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
24/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INC — $66,000 · Arts & CultureRAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INCFRIENDS OF SP4449 INC — $47,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SP4449 INCUnited Railroad Historical Society of NJ Inc — $44,500 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $36,000 · Arts & CultureENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY — $36,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureRAILROAD MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $33,500 · Arts & CulturePacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railway — $31,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $30,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $29,000 · Arts & Culture+26 more — $322,400 · Arts & Culture+26 moreNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $44,000 · OtherNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIA…MIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · OtherMIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY…NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $40,000 · OtherNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETYPACIFIC RAILROAD PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $39,500 · OtherPACIFIC RAILROAD PRESERVATION ASSOCI…PACIFIC RR PRESERVATION ASSN INCORPORATED — $35,000 · OtherPACIFIC RR PRESERVATION ASSN INCORPO…MID-CONTINENT RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · OtherMID-CONTINENT RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOC…RAILWAY RESTORATION PROJECT 113 — $25,000 · OtherRAILWAY RESTORATION PROJECT 113SAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · OtherSAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL S…GULF COAST CHAPTER NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $21,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER RR HERITAGE ASSN — $20,000 · Other+12 more — $142,600 · Other+12 moreWESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $65,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF GA STATE PARKS & HISTORI — $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE IRON HORSE SOCIETY AT STEAMTOWN INC — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$860,400Other$457,100Public Benefit$65,000Human Services$27,500Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAILROADING HERITAGE OF MIDWEST AMERICA INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $65,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SP4449 INC — $47,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetUnited Railroad Historical Society of NJ Inc — $44,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC RAILROAD PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $39,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $36,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY — $36,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetKENTUCKY RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRAILROAD MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $33,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetPacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railway — $31,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GA STATE PARKS & HISTORI — $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMID-CONTINENT RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBLACK RIVER RAILROAD HISTORICAL TRUST INC — $23,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAustin Steam Train Association — $21,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWATAUGA VALLEY RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetIRON MOUNTAIN RAILWAY — $17,100 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE TRUST FOR RAILWAY PR — $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEBT FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetKENTUCKY STEAM HERITAGE CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetRoanoke Chapt Natl RR Hist Society — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPacific Railroad Society — $15,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetLake Superior and Mississippi Railroad — $12,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDANBURY RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $12,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHEART OF DIXIE RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum — $11,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetEAST TROY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $11,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRAILROADERS HERITAGE CORPORATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MICHIGAN RAILROAD SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNEW MEXICO STEAM LOCOMOTIVE & RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetADIRONDACK RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNEAST RAIL HERITAGE PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WASHINGTON D — $8,800 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRANFORD ELECTRIC RAILWAY ASSOC INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNew York Museum of Transportation — $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSmoky Hill Railway & Historical — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Candelaria FundBnsf Railway Foundati…The Rebensdorf Family…Tom E Dailey Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…Ibm International Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
The Candelaria FundCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Candelaria Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Rebensdorf Family Foundation · Tom E Dailey Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Pacific Railroad Preservation Association Incorporated — 38% of income from government
  • Branford Electric Railway Assoc Inc — 17% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines