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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
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Salina Educational Automotive Museum of America Inc does

Mission

Relive the past. Drive the future.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 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 program
    36% of program spending
  2. Royal 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 program
    64% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,255.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 298 ($4.5M) Expenses 1126 ($234k) Net assets 353 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 117 ($1.8M) Expenses 4254 ($884k) Net assets 406 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 57 ($859k) Expenses 5151 ($1.1M) Net assets 394 ($6.7M)2024 Revenue 62 ($943k) Expenses 4444 ($923k) Net assets 395 ($6.7M)2025 Revenue 71 ($1.1M) Expenses 4647 ($965k) Net assets 402 ($6.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (71)Expenses (4647)Net assets (402)Peer revenue range

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%).

$1.7M
$6.1M
$7.3M
$7.0M
$7.1M
$7.3M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’20
$4.3M
’21
$897k
’22
−$211k
’23
$19k
’24
$114k
’25
3.7
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed888121213
Joined·+0+0+6+0+1
No longer listed·00200
03Who funds it

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.

36%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

11% of spending goes to programs.

Program 11%Management 78%Fundraising 11%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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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