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NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 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 FY2026
$42k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5
Net assets
$237k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What New York Society of Model Engineers Inc does

Mission

Model Railroad Society, Railroad Library, Historical artifacts, Public Education about Railroads and Railroad History

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Rail Transportation Educational Programs: Opened our doors to the public to view our two large model railroads. Two three-week open houses yielded an attendance of 466 Adults and 196 Children for a total of 662 attendees.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($194k)2018 Revenue 128 ($21k) Expenses 98 ($20k) Net assets 101 ($196k)2019 Revenue 159 ($27k) Expenses 190 ($38k) Net assets 95 ($185k)2020 Revenue 128 ($22k) Expenses 107 ($21k) Net assets 95 ($186k)2021 Revenue 80 ($13k) Expenses 93 ($18k) Net assets 93 ($180k)2022 Revenue 152 ($26k) Expenses 94 ($19k) Net assets 93 ($181k)2023 Revenue 260 ($44k) Expenses 125 ($25k) Net assets 103 ($200k)2024 Revenue 238 ($40k) Expenses 154 ($31k) Net assets 108 ($209k)2025 Revenue 189 ($32k) Expenses 119 ($24k) Net assets 112 ($217k)2026 Revenue 247 ($42k) Expenses 108 ($21k) Net assets 122 ($237k)
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Revenue (247)Expenses (108)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $217k to $237k (+9%).

$194k
$196k
$185k
$186k
$180k
$181k
$200k
$209k
$217k
$237k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$2k
’18
−$11k
’19
$285
’20
−$5k
’21
$7k
’22
$19k
’23
$9k
’24
$8k
’25
$20k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

1 of 1 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 NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC'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. $5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 710 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 710 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC?
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 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 NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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