Wisconsin · Nonprofit
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,140 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Steam Locomotive Heritage Association Inc does
Mission
To reconstruct, maintain, and display steam locomotives and associated historic railroad equipment for educational purposes.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Maintaining and displaying steam locomotives for educational purposes.
$13,678 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,678.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2025 to 2026, from $14k to $38k (+171%).
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.
100% of STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $240.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION 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
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
97% of STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC'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. Of the $240 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Against its field
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION 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 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC?
- STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,140 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,140 in grants to STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEAM LOCOMOTIVE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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