Texas · Nonprofit
RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM
RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,951 to it, the largest being CLARA B & W AUBREY SMITH CHARITABLE ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Red River Railroad Museum does
Mission
Historical railroad museum. To educate the community on the historical significance of the railroads to the grayson county area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maintained and operated a museum open to the public that displays historical documents, models, simulators, and other items of railroad significance. Museum was visited by approx 5000 people and is a frequent stop for field trips for local schools.
$59,865 spent$5,964 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $59,865.
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 2024 to 2025, from $79k to $97k (+23%).
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: 2017 61% · 2018 25% · 2019 79% · 2020 54% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 38% · 2024 27% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sam Oswald
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Hoover
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $7k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM’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
RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM has grown faster 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 RED RIVER RAILROAD 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RED RIVER RAILROAD 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 RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM?
- RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,951 to it, the largest being CLARA B & W AUBREY SMITH CHARITABLE ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $103,951 in grants to RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM?
- CLARA B & W AUBREY SMITH CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 8 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