Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,104 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($44,708). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Business Roundtable Incshared funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio match
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Business Roundtable Incshared fundersDC · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Hotel & Lodging Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Trucking Associations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Realtorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AGC Construction Advocacy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Automotive Innovation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Buildersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Transportation$5.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Consolidated Transportation Insurance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,104 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($44,708). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $51,104 in grants to AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS is the largest funder on record, with $44,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SHORT LINE & REGIONAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing