Washington · Nonprofit
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,677 to it, the largest being Great Northern Railway Historical Society ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $319k
- Net assets
- $905k
What Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive does
Mission
Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive (PNRA) owns and operates a facility and equipment enabling our member Railroad Heritage Organizations (RHO's) to preserve their historic railroad document collections and make them available to the general public over the Internet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide affordable storage, equipment and work space for the physical digital preservation of historic railroad documents PNRA owns and operats a 7,500 sq-ft archive facility in Burien, WA It's configured for RHO inventory to sort, scan, catalog and preserve their collection materials at the Archive or remotely.
$12,743 spent$12,743 earned by the program100% of program spendingRespond to requests from community organizations and individuals and fulfill those request with material from Railroad Heritage organizations (RHO's)collections. PNRA fulfills requests for information and copies of material in RHO collections and receives donations for the information. Additionally, PNRA fulfills orders for its RHO's online stores on a fee for service basis.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOperate and maintain railroad heritage websites services, as measured by and allocations to others. PNRA operates web services that host the RHO's research websites in a commercial data center in South Seattle that received 18,811 individual visits in 2020, making the historic railroad info available to the general public. The websites are: NPRHA.org; GN-NPJointArchive.org; research.MilwElectric.org;PNRA is developing a self contructed software asset to assist the RPO's in dissemination their information research.SPSHS.org; and PNRA.org. The RHO's provide funds to support their websites, while volunteers at PNRA updated the sites with material cataloged and scanned during work sessions, both on site at PNRA and remotely, as appropriate.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,743.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $757k to $925k (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 23% · 2023 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $18.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE’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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
98% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE's revenue fell 100% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE: 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 NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE?
- PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,677 to it, the largest being Great Northern Railway Historical Society ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $318,677 in grants to PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE?
- Great Northern Railway Historical Society is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC NORTHWEST RAILROAD ARCHIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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