Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,135 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,558). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $699k
What National Association of Railroad Passengers does
Mission
The mission of the National Association of Railroad Passengers is to expand and improve passenger rail service to more places for more people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Social betterment: direct contact with passenger railroad management, legislators, and other government officials for the purpose of promoting policies, procedures, and services we deem most favorable to the interests of rail passengers and (in a few cases) helping to resolve passenger complaints with amtrak management. We submitted statements for the record of various congressional hearings (including the appropriate house and senate appropriations subcommittees) and testified at authorization and/or oversight hearings at the request of legislators, to encourage and promote the development of a more balanced u.s. Transportation system.
$320,897 spent39% of program spendingEducation: communicate with our members and the general public through news media, pamphlets, weekly online rail news summary, website and public meetings regarding passenger operations, services, routes and schedules and proposed changes thereto; current and proposed rail passenger legislation, regulations, and policies; passenger railroad management and financial issues; specific service-related questions and concerns of our members and the general public.
$296,212 spent36% of program spendingResearch: continuing research regarding rail passenger operations, services, routes and schedules, and proposed changes thereto; current and proposed passenger legislation, regulations, and policies; passenger railroad management and financial issues; and specific service-related questions and concerns of our members and the general public.
$205,703 spent$61,271 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $822,812.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $2.0M (−29%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% 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
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.
Chief executive
Jim Mathews
President & CEO
Board chair
Meredith Richards
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $22k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 91% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 80% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,135 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,558). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $151,135 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,558 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS 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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing