California · Nonprofit
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,196 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $424k
What Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society Inc does
Mission
To preserve the rich and diverse heritage of Redwood Empire railroading and to keep abreast of the patterns of changes as they evolve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Publication of two periodicals and several newsletters on railroad history.
$16,094 spent35% of program spendingMaintain and improve historical railroad library in Petaluma, CA.
$22,596 spent50% of program spendingRestoration and preservation of historic railcars.
$6,864 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,554.
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 $299k to $342k (+14%).
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.
80% of NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $600 → $23k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
90% 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 NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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
90% of NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
75%
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 NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,196 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,196 in grants to NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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