New York · Nonprofit
Medina Railroad Museum
Medina Railroad Museum (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Medina Railroad Museum is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Tr Uw Elisabeth Dye Curtislocal
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio match
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2021 38% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Medina Railroad Museum’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Medina Railroad Museum’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
Medina Railroad Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
62% 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 Medina Railroad Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 80% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Medina Railroad Museum's grant income comes from New York 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.
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.
- Tr Uw Elisabeth Dye CurtislocalNY · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom E Dailey Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Stephenson Fndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio History Connectionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Riley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Medina Railroad Museum
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Medina Railroad Museum: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Medina Railroad Museum?
- Medina Railroad Museum (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Medina Railroad Museum have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,000 in grants to Medina Railroad Museum.
- Who is the largest funder of Medina Railroad Museum?
- PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Medina Railroad Museum 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.
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 3funders 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