Maine · Nonprofit
BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Bridgton & Saco River Railroad Museum Inc does
Mission
Preserving and teaching the history of the B&SR Railroad
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conservation of B&SR boxcar frame (annual costs)
$300 spent29% of program spendingAnnual seminar series for local historical societies (five in total one day events in 2025)
$50 spent5% of program spendingConservation and digitization of historic B&SR/B&H company documents and blueprints
$700 spent67% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,050.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $107k to $113k (+6%).
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.
100% of BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC’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.
Where its funders are
BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
- BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
- STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGTON & SACO RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing