New Jersey · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC
NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,611 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Northwest Jersey Hi-Railers Inc does
Mission
To operate a historical model railroad museum and to stimulate interest and provide education in both model railroading and full scale operational railroading both past and present. The operating model train layout that is maintained by the organization accurately portrays local railroading. Planned exhibits will be open to the public at set intervals and model trains will be run at these events. To maintain an educational organization for the study of American railroading past and present; providing an organization where members and the general public can learn modeling and other related skills both from fellow members and from outside speakers We will be providing access to history of railroading in the United States to school groups and the public at large. We will be providing exhibits of steam, electric, and diesel trains. A library of material pertaining to model railroading will be maintained. To maintain a website where model railroading can be discussed .
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Held 4 open houses to promote railroad history and model railroading. Club was displaced midway through 2025 and spent the second half of 2025 preparing our new location.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $82k to $99k (+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.
100% of NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $853 → $919.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS 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
NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
78% 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 NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 84% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% — 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
78% of NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS 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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS 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 NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC?
- NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,611 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,611 in grants to NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS INC?
- T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST JERSEY HI-RAILERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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