Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC
DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $354k
What Denver Rail Heritage Society Inc does
Mission
Public education regarding Denver's transit history.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Denver Rail Heritage Society's primary mission is public education regarding Denver's transit history. We operate a heritage trolley along the Platte River corridor to educate the public of the role that transit played in Denver's early development. The DRHS has 65 members including 20+ active member volunteers performing equipment maintenance and trolley operations. We annually log >500 hours of volunteer service to our Denver Trolley. These volunteers maintain our trolley and infrastructure, perform community outreach, and operate the Trolley during our season. Annual 2024 ridership was >14,000 individuals.
$83,379 spentof which $17,018 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,379.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $298k to $333k (+12%).
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.
15% of DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ethan Yazzie-Mintz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY 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
DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, 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
DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY 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 Colorado
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC?
- DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,000 in grants to DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER RAIL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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