- Revenue 2024
- $1,037,771
- Expenses 2024
- $1,058,774
Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A82Z
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 406
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE WHITEWATER VALLEY RAILROAD IS A HERITAGE RAILROAD DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND PRESENTATION OF BRANCH LINE RAILROADING.
Activities or mission (Part I)
HISTORICAL TRAIN RIDES
-
AN OPERATING RAILROAD MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF AN HISTORIC BRANCH LINE RAILROAD, TO THE RESTORATION OF RAILROAD EQUIPMENT, AND TO THE CONDUCT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WHICH PROVIDED RIDES FOR APPROXIMATELY 40,000 PASSENGERS.
Expenses $1,019,048 · Grants $10,986 · Revenue $1,020,103
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
Ryan ScottRYAN SCOTT
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tom ScottTOM SCOTT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tom NitzaTOM NITZA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Travis WellerTRAVIS WELLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ed HerrellED HERRELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tom MellotTOM MELLOT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rob RogersROB ROGERS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Charles CoburnCHARLES COBURN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John HillmanJOHN HILLMAN
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Andy SchweringANDY SCHWERING
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John SprinkleJOHN SPRINKLE
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lindsey BrooksLINDSEY BROOKS
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,037,771
- Expenses
- $1,058,774
- Contributions
- $17,668
- Grants paid
- $10,986
-
2023
- Revenue
- $948,124
- Expenses
- $1,013,278
- Contributions
- $34,324
- Grants paid
- $9,442
-
2022
- Revenue
- $930,791
- Expenses
- $896,816
- Contributions
- $30,821
- Grants paid
- $10,175
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,230,385
- Expenses
- $777,754
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,075,574
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $486,046
- Expenses
- $578,601
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,675,984
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
-
FAYETTE FOUNDATION
$10,586
2024 FOUNDATION GENERAL FUND
-
FAYETTE FOUNDATION
$10,175
2022 FOUNDATION GENERAL FUND
-
FAYETTE FOUNDATION
$9,442
2023 FOUNDATION GENERAL FUND
Grants received
-
$11,237
2025 2025 ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION
-
2022 ANNUAL DESIGNATED PAYOUT
-
2023 ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.