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SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C

SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $947 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($947). 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
$61k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$947
Net assets
$149k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sacramento Valley Live Steamers Railroad Museum Inc a California C does

Mission

The purpose of the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers Railroad Museum, Inc. is to promote and inspire appreciation of America's rich railroad history and mechanical heritage, and illuminate and educate children and adults through the collection, preservation and exhibition of live steam engines and railroad equipment in an interactive environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Advancing the organization's mission of promoting America's railroad history.

    $25,980 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,980.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($76k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2022 Revenue 109 ($83k) Expenses 90 ($45k) Net assets 149 ($116k)2023 Revenue 110 ($83k) Expenses 132 ($65k) Net assets 173 ($135k)2024 Revenue 74 ($56k) Expenses 156 ($77k) Net assets 146 ($114k)2025 Revenue 80 ($61k) Expenses 53 ($26k) Net assets 191 ($149k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (80)Expenses (53)Net assets (191)

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 $78k to $116k (+49%).

$78k
$116k
$135k
$114k
$149k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’21
$38k
’22
$18k
’23
−$21k
’24
$35k
’25
25
months of
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.

202120222023
Listed998
Joined·+2+1
No longer listed·22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $124 → $254.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

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 SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C’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 SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C'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. $947 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C?
SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $947 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($947). 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 SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $947 in grants to SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SACRAMENTO VALLEY LIVE STEAMERS RAILROAD MUSEUM INC A CALIFORNIA C find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), 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