Delaware · Nonprofit
LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC
LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $273k
What Lewes Junction Railroad and Bridge Association Inc does
Mission
To to preserve, display, and interpret the historical significance of the railroad to lewes and eastern sussex county delaware in an authentic and appealing setting for the education and enjoyment of the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rolling stock refurbishment/enhancement/maintenance: completed restoration and moved tender to junction and placed on display. Began cosmetic restoration of locomotive. Bridge site maintenance.
$73,237 spent99% of program spendingInterpret historical significance of the railroad: onducted train day celebration with lectures, demonstrations and guided tours of restored caboose and tender. Staffed and opened caboose for guided tours twice a month throughout the year. Gave tours of rail road equipment and presentations to attendees of the lewes public library youth bilingual summer camp.
$560 spent1% of program spendingIncrease ljrba partnerships and public awareness of ljrba and mission: artnered with numerous local groups on train day plans and events. Participated with lewes education coalition to conduct a summer passport to encourage participants to visit the wide variety of historic, educational, and natural resources lewes offers. Manned a display at annual garden day event to promote the organizations goals and to answer questions. Active member of lewes chamber of commerce (lcc). Joined with lcc members to promote awareness of items of historical interest in lewes by producing a map of lewes with historic and commercial points of interest (including caboose) located and described. Attend monthly lcc mixers to keep members informed of ljrba mission, goals and achievements.
$461 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,258.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $161k to $302k (+87%).
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.
92% of LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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 LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE 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
LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
“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 LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
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
LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 50% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$175k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC?
- LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD AND BRIDGE ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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