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← NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$284,725
Total expenses
$261,619
Contributions and grants received
$58,791
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$219,462
Investment income
$6,359
Other revenue
$113
Total assets, end of year
$964,658
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,830
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$962,828
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$216,516
Management and general expenses
$44,143
Fundraising expenses
$960
Program service expenses (Part III)
$216,516

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $58,791

  • 2a · Program service revenue: EXCURSIONS AND TRIPS

    total $219,462 · related or exempt $219,462

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,359 · related or exempt $6,359

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $2,162

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $2,049

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $113 · related or exempt $113

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $3,613 · program services $3,209 · management and general $404

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $27,996 · management and general $27,036 · fundraising $960

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,030 · management and general $4,030

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $28,007 · program services $28,007

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $11,705 · management and general $11,705

  • 24a · Other expenses: MEMBERSHIPS

    total $968 · management and general $968

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $185,300 · program services $185,300

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $673,947 · end of year $736,865

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $108,961 · end of year $122,072

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $6,126 · end of year $6,785

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $656,274

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $557,338

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $126,943 · end of year $98,936

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $780 · end of year $1,830

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $915,197 · end of year $962,828

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO EXPAND PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF RAILROADS AND THEIR HISTORY THROUGH PRESERVATION AND EDUCATION.

  • Historic railroad and railcar trips, tours, and excursions operation. We operated charters to Pittsburgh and New Orleans. We also operated public trips between New York and Albany, New York and Washington, Boston and Albany and Washington, D.C. and Roanoke We also operated two tours of the VRE shops and two of the Amtrak shops and a day of rides and tours on the East Broad Top Railroad. We also took the car on a public trip to an open house at Pullman National Historical Site (trip was NY-Chicago-Washington-NY)

    Expenses $136,975 · Revenue $219,402

  • Railcar Maintenance and Preservation. including maintaining 1 to Amtrak specifications. Approximate number of direct participants: 25. Heavily focus on in FY2025 to the air and water raising systems of DOVER HARBOR, kitchen repainting, roof repairs. We use volunteers as much as we can.

    Expenses $76,319

  • Educational programs, including Member and public meetings (on-line) on topics of railway history and railway preservation, monthly newsletter publication, and Library Operation. Approximate number of Direct participants: 80 (on-line programs) + newsletter readership of 425 per month (on-line monthly programs). Train Day was held at the Library the Sunday after Thanksgiving and about 20 participants came and checked out the library and watched the Amtrak trains roll by on the busiest day of the year on the Northeast Corridor. Also held a book sale and open house at the library.

    Expenses $3,222

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Bob Bitzer

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carol Zabrosky

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Zabrosky

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jon Baake

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Richard Garabedian

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Shevock

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • P WILLIAM BARNHART Jr

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael Gingerich

    DIRECTOR AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jim Perry

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Brandon Brown

    COMPTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dean Edmonds

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • James W Lilly

    ASSISTANT TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Paul Barnes

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ann Mason

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
2 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202541969349301914

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