Kansas · Nonprofit
SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC
SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,660 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($290,739). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $809k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Salina Educational Automotive Museum of America Inc does
Mission
Relive the past. Drive the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collect, preserve, interpret, exhibit and celebrate the history of the automobile and its influence on american culture. Commitment to educating the public on the historical significance of the automobile with programs in an instructive and entertaining manner.
$38,692 spent$128,680 earned by the program36% of program spendingRoyal driving school offers in-class instruction and one-on-one driving instruction for students ages 14 to 18 years old to develop safe and educated drivers.
$67,563 spent$76,861 earned by the program64% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,255.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $6.1M (+261%).
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: 2020 84% · 2021 76% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA 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. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $400k → $155k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA 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
SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 79% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k 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
SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
11% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA 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 SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC?
- SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,660 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($290,739). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $808,660 in grants to SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC?
- Greater Salina Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $290,739 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing