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LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC

LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,700 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$149k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$274k
Grants received
$612k
Net assets
3/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%

Against its field

LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin92% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve129.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2018 Revenue 67 ($20k) Expenses 56 ($2k) Net assets 168 ($44k)2019 Revenue 340 ($102k) Expenses 48 ($2k) Net assets 554 ($144k)2020 Revenue 485 ($145k) Expenses 84 ($3k) Net assets 1100 ($286k)2021 Revenue 203 ($61k) Expenses 73 ($3k) Net assets 1322 ($343k)2022 Revenue 102 ($31k) Expenses 96 ($4k) Net assets 1425 ($370k)2023 Revenue 443 ($133k) Expenses 731 ($29k) Net assets 1824 ($474k)2024 Revenue 499 ($149k) Expenses 295 ($12k) Net assets 2354 ($612k)
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Revenue (499)Expenses (295)Net assets (2354)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
17
$18k
18
$100k
19
$142k
20
$58k
21
$27k
22
$104k
23
$138k
24
130
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $105k → $19k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)69% 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 LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM 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

LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC.

46%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2023 32%diversifying over time.

“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

69% of LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM 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. Of the $86k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.

NH
NY
MA
CA

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

20
21
23
New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Hampshire

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

7% of spending goes to programs.

Program 7%Management 71%Fundraising 22%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM 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 LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,700 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $273,700 in grants to LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing