Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GORAIL
GORAIL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,569,000 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($4,354,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $384k
What Gorail does
Mission
The organization was established to improve the quality of life for all americans and to build a stronger economy by promoting increased use of freight rail transportation as an alternative to continued reliance on an overcrowded highway system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gorail educates community leaders and the public about the benefits of moving freight by rail and asks them to make clear to members of congress that rail policy decisions made in washington, d.c. Have real impacts in local communities. Gorail continues to have great success conveying its message about the public benefits of freight rail.in 2025, Gorail continued growing its network of local officials and community leaders nationwide, as well as strengthening its grassroots network, deepening engagement with coalition partners on freight rail policy issues, and leveraging these relationships to generate a steady stream of constituent input, local media coverage, and social media engagement with public officials.
$1,597,891 spent$86,985 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,597,891.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $548k to $261k (−52%).
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.
96% of GORAIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $525k → $675k.
From the IRS filings of GORAIL’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
GORAIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 GORAIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — 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
98% of GORAIL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
GORAIL's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GORAIL
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GORAIL: 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 GORAIL?
- GORAIL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,569,000 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($4,354,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GORAIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,569,000 in grants to GORAIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GORAIL?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS is the largest funder on record, with $4,354,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GORAIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), 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