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NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,050 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($68,040). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $384k
What National Railway Historical Society Pacific Northwest Chapter does
Mission
Preserve railroad history and artifacts
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Maintained our Office in historic Union Station. Held monthly meetings for our Members and Guests with refreshments provided. Meetings are conducted both In Person and are also available On Line. Each meeting includes a program on railroad history. We continue to publish and mail our monthly newsletter, The Trainmaster. The publication includes articles on railroad history. Our archive includes all issues of The Trainmaster starting in 1956. These are searchable on our public website www.pnwc-nrhs.org, and can be very helpful when doing research on railroad history.
$14,882 spent39% of program spendingMaintained our Lending Library and Archive. Our volunteers continued work on installation of heavy duty pallet racking to replace the existing shelving. The new shelving will increase our storage capacity and will provide easier access for staff and researchers. The project will also remove painted wooden shelving. These materials, such as plywood or particle board, can emit fumes that are harmful for long term storage of paper materials. The project is replacing the existing shelving with metal pallet racking. The aisles are being made wide enough to allow use of a rolling step ladder, allowing safe and ready access to the higher shelves. Our volunteers are also working on specification and procurement of new HVAC equipment that will improve the stability of the temperature and humidity. We have received permission from our Landlord to install the condensing unit outside of the building. Having an environment where the temperature and humidity are controlled will aid in the long term storage of paper documents. We are also working on procurement of equipment to digitize paper records. Being able to scan books and flat paper drawings will improve our ability to catalog and index…
$13,558 spent36% of program spendingOur volunteer staff performed necessary repairs and maintenance on our railway rolling stock. This work is performed in accordance with Federal Railway Administration (FRA) regulations to ensure our railcars used to haul passengers are safe. We have volunteers who have received classroom and hands on training and have been tested and are Certified to perform test and repair of the air brake equipment on railcars. The equipment used for testing of the air brakes is also Certified. The work these volunteers do is all in accordance with FRA rules and regulations. These passenger railcars are used as part of the Holiday Express Train, operated by the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. The Holiday Express Train is pulled by a steam locomotive, and runs between Black Friday and New Years Day. The Holiday Express Train is a major event that sells out every year. There were over 15,000 passengers who rode on the Holiday Express Train. Many of these passengers are young people who have never been on a train before. Our volunteers provide staff for the train, as well as mechanical support while the train is in operation. Our passenger railcars are heated using steam from the steam locomotive…
$9,347 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,787.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $460k to $365k (−21%).
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.
18% of NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER’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 RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER?
- NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,050 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($68,040). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $68,050 in grants to NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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