Texas · Nonprofit
ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,660 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Rosenberg Railroad Museum Inc does
Mission
The mission of the railroad museum is to preserve railroad history and its impact on the development of fort bend county, texas, and to educate the community through engaging history and science programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The museum services program includes the preservation and interpretation of railroading history through both permanent and temporary exhibits. Guests receive guided tours as part of the admission. Tours include the museum's major exhibits: model railroading displays, six historic rail cars and a 1903 interlocker switching tower. Discounts are offered for senior adults over 65, active military and veterans. In fy 2025, 8,052 individuals experienced the museum through museum program services.
$149,098 spent$87,583 earned by the program38% of program spendingMulti- disciplinary museum education programs explore both history and stem topics while catering to a wide audience, from children to adults. Programs are delivered to youth through scout merit badge classes, wig wag preschool programs, school field trips, free community days. Education programs include volunteer opportunities for adults and teens. In fy 2025, there were 4,949 individuals served by education programs and 1,165 volunteer shifts.
$182,204 spent$41,092 earned by the program47% of program spendingMuseum special programs are fun and engaging opportunities for the community to experience the museum. These programs vary from special exhibit activities and themed exhibits to seasonal festivals and events. Special fun days featured themed days with specialty trains running on the layouts (for example: military appreciation, thomas and friends, steam engines, and circus). Rail fest was the 2025 festival that provided a day of family fun with a bounce house, activities, and exhibit open house and kid play zones. Private tours and birthday parties with tours are an educational and creative way to celebrate. In 2025, over 2,626 individuals were attracted to the museum for special programs.
$58,451 spent$28,624 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $389,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.4M to $1.7M (+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: 2019 19% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 53% · 2023 20% · 2024 5% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Rainey Webster
Executive director
Board chair
Clint Stump
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $49k → $216k.
2 of 14 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 ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM 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
ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 91% · 2018 81% · 2019 69% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
98% of ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
- ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,660 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,187,660 in grants to ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC?
- THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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