Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC
DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $515 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($395). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $515
- Net assets
- $97k
What Delaware Seaside Railroad Club Inc does
Mission
As stated in DSRC's by-laws: Promote and perserve the history and hobby of model railroading. This is accomplished through the exchange of information, development of relationships, and interaction with the community through train meets, shows, displays, workshops, and presentations. Our purpose is to contnuously educate the public about model railroading - past, present and future.Each year DSRC is visible to the public throuh attendance at parades and public events. The clubhouse houses over 5 operating train layouts in different gauges and is open to the public. Workshops are held to encourage young and old to develop an interest and appreciation of this amazing hobby which has been part of the public landscape for over 100 years. Workshops are hands on to teach skills necessary to build, wire and maintain layouts.DSRC is an all-volunteeer workforce. Members build, modify and maintain all the club's permenant and travelling train layouts, maintain our facilities and interact with th
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Train shows/exhibits: the club sponsors two to three train shows each year held at rented venues away from the club. Dsrc sponsored 3 shows in 2024 and 2025 and should continue to be the case in futured years. Vendors as well as the club display, demonstrate and sell tgheir wares to the public. Additionally, the club sponsored 3 saturday morning yard sales at the club which yielded sales of donated property to sustain operations and programs. Vendors are allowed to participate as well. Drrc sets up a travelling train layout at the shows for the enjoyment of attendees. Efforts are labor intensive and ptovided on a volunteer basis by members. Direct costs include primarily rent for the venue. The public benefits as we continue to expose the hobby to the pubklic inviting questions, comments and suggestions. This program is an extension of regular club operations. An estimate of volunteer labor to put on the shows is estimated at between 300 and 400 hours per event. The third show in 2025 took place over 3 days and was much more labor intensive at well over 1000 hours. Estimated direct and allocated occupancy and other related overhead for 2025 were $12,722.
$12,722 spent40% of program spendingPublic requests: the second major program this year was honoring specific requests from the public which included appearances at parades, displaying train layouts during holiday periods at libraries and other public events. The major effort is labor which is volunteered by members. Direct costs are minimal. We have travelling layouts for this purpose and one is a mounted on a float pulled by members' cars/trucks. When not in use, the displays are stored, housed and maintained at club facilities. Identifiable costs include a portion of occupancy and maintenance costs estimated at $12,093. These particular efforts benefit the punblic keeping the hobby in the forefront.
$12,093 spent38% of program spendingService to the public: one of our most important service programs is keeping our club open to the public as scheduled on wednesday and saturday (and other times by appointmeent). Visitors see the operating layouts in operation, interact with members, and seek advice and help on matters regarding the hobby. We have magazines and other publications generally free to the public. We also have layouts for children to operate and touch for their experimentation with trains. We get donations from visitors and new members. Over the years we have held classes for school-age groupsss on how to build a layout hands-on. The public can also bring their trains and equpment in for testing and troubleshooting.donations from estates and individuals of trains and equipment, layouts and collections are sold to generate revenues to sustain operations and programs. The club is open to members for cleaning, maintreance of layouts and all the chores necessary to keep the club open.this effort id labor intensive and all time is volunteered by members. The best estimate of costs include an allocation of occuoancy costs based on time spent and space occupied. Usually there are 12 or more members present on…
$7,052 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,867.
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 $64k to $97k (+51%).
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.
99% of DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $244 → $271.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
77% 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 DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 51% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $120 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Delaware funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB 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
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC?
- DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $515 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($395). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $515 in grants to DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE SEASIDE RAILROAD CLUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2 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