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DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS

DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$8k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Delaware Valley Association of Railroad Passengers does

Mission

Advocacy for Public Transit users in the Delaware Valley

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Publish four quarterly issues of the Delaware Valley Rail Passenger

    $2,470 spent
    42% of program spending
  2. Rent and Utilities

    $2,149 spent
    36% of program spending
  3. Liability Insurance

    $1,305 spent
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,924.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($7k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($219)2022 Revenue 212 ($14k) Expenses 101 ($8k) Net assets 2728 ($6k)2023 Revenue 84 ($6k) Expenses 101 ($8k) Net assets 1510 ($3k)2024 Revenue 138 ($9k) Expenses 86 ($7k) Net assets 2454 ($5k)2025 Revenue 134 ($9k) Expenses 73 ($6k) Net assets 3803 ($8k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (134)Expenses (73)Net assets (3803)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $219 to $6k (+2628%).

$219
$6k
$3k
$5k
$8k
20212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’21
$6k
’22
−$3k
’23
$2k
’24
$3k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $100.

From the IRS filings of DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS’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 VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 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

DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS?
DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,075 in grants to DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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