Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC
RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,222 to it, the largest being BUEHLER MEMORIAL TRUST UA ($92,651). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Railways to Yesterday Inc does
Mission
Preservation of railway history. Providing a living history museum dedicated to historic trolley cars
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Railways to yesterday operates a living history musuem that is open to the public on weekends from june through october. The museum was open 116 days and approximately 7,182 visitors attended during 2024. The museum has restored approximately 14 vintage trolley cars and 13 related conveyances. The museum is currently restoring or storing an additional 10 cars. Special events are held in october, november and december. Santas trolley,the polar bear express and an easter event added in 2014 are particularly attractive to children. This is an all volunteer organization.
$108,295 spent$84,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,295.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $2.2M (+8%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Calvin Gerhard
Chairman director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $21k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY 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
RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 51% · 2023 71% — 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
RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY 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 RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC?
- RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,222 to it, the largest being BUEHLER MEMORIAL TRUST UA ($92,651). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $164,222 in grants to RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC?
- BUEHLER MEMORIAL TRUST UA is the largest funder on record, with $92,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing