Texas · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC
NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,661 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN COASTER ENTHUSIASTS INC ($182,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $216k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives Inc does
Mission
To establish, own and operate a roller coaster museum and arhives for public education and benefit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support and promote american coaster enthusiasts worldwide, inc. Goals of education, enjoyment and preservation of roller coasters; to establish, own and operate a roller coaster museum and archives for the education and benefit of the public; to establish and maintain archives of roller coaster literature, videos, memorabilia, and equipment and to provide technical, academic and historical research facilities; to establish and maintain archives of related amusement park history and information; to accomplish its purpose with financial support from corporations, contributions, in- kind donations, and activities allied with or incidental to said purposes; and to offer for sale educational and historical material, and gifts, clothing and mementos related to the roller coasters and related amusement parks.
$33,039 spent$58,344 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $33,039.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+56%).
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.
83% of NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 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. 0 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.
Board chair
Jeff Novotny
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 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
NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% — 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
87% of NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 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 NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC?
- NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,661 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN COASTER ENTHUSIASTS INC ($182,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $215,661 in grants to NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC?
- THE AMERICAN COASTER ENTHUSIASTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $182,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7 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