Missouri · Nonprofit
Smoky Hill Railway & Historical
Smoky Hill Railway & Historical (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072 to it, the largest being THE RAIL HERITAGE TRUST FIRST OPTION BANK TRUSTEE ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Smoky Hill Railway & Historical's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Candelaria Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Tom E Dailey Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Smoky Hill Railway & Historical’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $26.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Smoky Hill Railway & Historical’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
Smoky Hill Railway & Historical leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Smoky Hill Railway & Historical draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Candelaria Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tom E Dailey Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leo Cox Beach Philanthropic Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peculiar Charitable FoundationlocalMO · funds 27 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Smoky Hill Railway & Historical
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Smoky Hill Railway & Historical: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Smoky Hill Railway & Historical?
- Smoky Hill Railway & Historical (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072 to it, the largest being THE RAIL HERITAGE TRUST FIRST OPTION BANK TRUSTEE ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Smoky Hill Railway & Historical have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,072 in grants to Smoky Hill Railway & Historical, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Smoky Hill Railway & Historical?
- THE RAIL HERITAGE TRUST FIRST OPTION BANK TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Smoky Hill Railway & Historical find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing