Missouri · Nonprofit
IRON SPIKE INC
IRON SPIKE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,284 to it, the largest being BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $207k
What Iron Spike Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose - to educate and promote knowledge and enjoyment of model railroading for all ages; to establish and operate a railroad museum to build, display and operate interactive scaled railroad layouts to depict different timelines in the growth of railroads in our nation; to display railroad memorabilia, artifacts and photos; and to invite the public, scouts, schools, community organizations and other model railroading enthusiasts to visit, tour, observe and participate in the corporation's operations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education and promotion of knowledge and enjoyment of model railroading for all ages.
$205,574 spent$35,605 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $205,574.
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 2020 to 2021, from $249k to $343k (+38%).
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.
77% of IRON SPIKE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38 → $75.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 IRON SPIKE 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
IRON SPIKE INC 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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
IRON SPIKE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284 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
IRON SPIKE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like IRON SPIKE 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRON SPIKE 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 IRON SPIKE INC?
- IRON SPIKE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,284 to it, the largest being BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IRON SPIKE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,284 in grants to IRON SPIKE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRON SPIKE INC?
- BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRON SPIKE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 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