New York · Nonprofit
ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC
ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,054 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Electric Railroaders Association Inc does
Mission
Study the history and current operations of electric railways, including main line railroads, subways, and light rail systems. Publish Headlights Magazine on an annual or semi-annual basis on the subject of electric railway history. Publish the ERA Bulletin on a monthly basis to report electric railway current events and historical studies. Meet 10 times per year to make presentations on electric railway history and current events. Operate inspection trips to electric railway facilities and museums. Operate one international trip every other year to extensively study electric railway operations in a foreign country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Convention - Kansas City/St Louis: Group trip to study and visit electric railway operations, light rail operations, and streetcar and railroad museums
$15,237 spent$16,320 earned by the program14% of program spendingConvention England: Group trip to study and visit electric railway operations. light rail and tram operations, electric trolley bus operations and tramway and railroad museums
$18,922 spent$112,885 earned by the program17% of program spendingPub Sales Brooklyn Vol 3. approximately 81 books sold (68 to book dealers and 13 to members) and approximately 700 books distributed to members as part of their 2025 membership
$32,277 spent$4,940 earned by the program29% of program spendingConventions, LRTA, Publication Sales, & trips.
$44,331 spent$48,558 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $110,767.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $294k to $367k (+25%).
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.
31% of ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11 → $24.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION 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
ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION 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 ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,054 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,054 in grants to ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELECTRIC RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2025), 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