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ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC
ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($26). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26
- Net assets
- $94k
What Robert W Willaford Railroad Museum Society Inc does
Mission
We display and maintain a very sizable collection of railroad memorabilia, including our best-known item, a completely restored Seaboard Air Line Caboose 5735, built in 1963 to help us with our mission to promote and educate visitors about railroad history and the impact on eastern Hillsborough County and Plant City Florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Museum is open 5 days per week educating visitors about railroad history and its impact in the area. In 2024 we welcomed 500 vistors per month.
$41,747 spent95% of program spendingWe perform community outreach by participating in 2 city sponsored parades totaling 60,000 people combined. We promote the museum and history railroading here in Plant CIty by maintaining a booth at the Florida Strawberry Festival which draws 600,000 visitors to our area.
$2,081 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,828.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $100k to $94k (−6%).
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.
100% of ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC’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. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC's revenue fell 19% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC?
- ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($26). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26 in grants to ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT W WILLAFORD RAILROAD MUSEUM SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2024–2025), 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