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R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC

R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,138 to it, the largest being RE OLDS FOUNDATION ($69,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$361k
Revenue FY2024
10
Funders on record
$189k
Grants received
$687k
Net assets
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($188k) Expenses 100 ($173k) Net assets 100 ($410k)2018 Revenue 255 ($481k) Expenses 184 ($317k) Net assets 140 ($573k)2019 Revenue 193 ($364k) Expenses 151 ($261k) Net assets 165 ($676k)2020 Revenue 84 ($158k) Expenses 94 ($161k) Net assets 164 ($673k)2021 Revenue 118 ($223k) Expenses 152 ($263k) Net assets 178 ($728k)2022 Revenue 109 ($205k) Expenses 147 ($254k) Net assets 169 ($691k)2023 Revenue 128 ($242k) Expenses 144 ($248k) Net assets 149 ($610k)2024 Revenue 191 ($361k) Expenses 165 ($284k) Net assets 168 ($687k)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (165)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
17
$163k
18
$103k
19
$3k
20
$40k
21
$49k
22
$6k
23
$77k
24
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $24k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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 R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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

R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC.

37%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 58% · 2021 45% · 2022 55% · 2023 44%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.

How long its funders stay

29% of R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you typical among the 323 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 33%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC?
R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,138 to it, the largest being RE OLDS FOUNDATION ($69,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $189,138 in grants to R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC?
RE OLDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing