California · Nonprofit
PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM
PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $548k
What Pacific Bus Museum does
Mission
To educate the public and our members about the history of bus transportation through visits to our facility and through public appearances using our vehicles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We purchased a vehicle and made repairs to our fleet to keep the buses operable. We have over 400 visitors annually. We are open 24 days a year plus our annual Open House. Our publication has six issue per year.
$32,310 spent$38,137 earned by the program36% of program spendingWe paid rent on our facility and a satellite facility to store our buses, archives, tools, and equipment. This allows us to have over 400 visitors per year to view our buses and use our archives for research. We are open 24 days per year plus our annual Open House. Our publication has six issues per year.
$18,270 spent$10,828 earned by the program21% of program spendingWe paid insurance on our buses and our facility. This allows us to drive the buses to public appearances and have the general public and our members visit us on the 24 days a year we are open plus our annual Open House. Our publication has six issues per year.
$11,169 spent$10,828 earned by the program13% of program spendingbusiness expenses, fuel, postage and shipping, printing, vehicle registrations, electricity, water and sewer, merchandise expenses, weed and vine control, building and grounds expenses
$26,833 spent$39,005 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,582.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $479k to $548k (+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.
41% of PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Against its field
PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM
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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM: 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 PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM?
- PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC BUS MUSEUM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing