CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A115

Classification

2000

Street

111 I ST

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 · 2025

• SACRAMENTO SOUTHERN RAILROAD OPERATIONS PROGRAM PROVIDES SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC BY ENHANCING THEIR EXPERIENCE AND PROVIDING AN INTERPRETIVE EXPERIENCE IN OLD SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA STATE HISTORIC PARK.

  Expenses $1,690,603 · Grants $465,000 · Revenue $496,909

• THE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES ENHANCED VISITOR EXPERIENCE BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS, EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES WHICH INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING AND INTEREST IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM.

  Expenses $909,035 · Revenue $216,640

• RAILTOWN 1897 RAILROAD OPERATIONS PROGRAM PROVIDES SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC BY ENHANCING THEIR EXPERIENCE VISITING THE RAILTOWN 1897 CALIFORNIA STATE HISTORIC PARK.

  Expenses $690,210 · Grants $525 · Revenue $220,177

• RAILROAD SHOPS PROJECT IS THE STUDY, DESIGN, AND PRESENTATION OF THE PLAN TO BUILD AN EXPANDED MUSEUM BUILDINGS COMPLEX AS PART OF THE RAILYARDS PROJECT BEING BUILT BY THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO. THIS PROJECT WAS HALTED IN 2020 DUE TO COVID-19 AND HAS BEEN PLACED ON HOLD FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

  Expenses $61,522

• CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM STORE RETAIL OPERATIONS SERVES VISITORS WITH THE ABILITY TO PURCHASE EDUCATIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE ITEMS TO ENHANCE THEIR VISITOR EXPERIENCE.

  Expenses $623,571 · Revenue $648,492

• MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE PROVIDES SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM IN ORDER TO BETTER SERVE THE PUBLIC VISITING THE MUSEUM.

  Expenses $348,724

• EDUCATION & INTERPRETATION & VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM PROVIDE SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC WHO VISIT THE CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM SUCH SERVICES AS EDUCATION, LIVING HISTORY DAYS AND OTHER PUBLIC RELATIONS.

  Expenses $219,157 · Revenue $2,720

• COLLECTIONS ACQUISITION & LIBRARY REPRODUCTION PROGRAM SERVES TO SPONSOR, PUBLISH, PURCHASE, DISTRIBUTE/SELL APPROPRIATE LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIALS & OTHER ITEMS WHICH WILL INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING & APPREICATION FOR THE VALUES & PURPOSE OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM.

  Expenses $34,220 · Revenue $11,046

• EXHIBITS/EVENTS PROGRAM PROVIDES SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC VISITING THE CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM WHICH INCLUDES DISPLAYS OF SPECIAL EXHIBITS DURING THE YEAR.

  Expenses $148,621 · Grants $500

• RAILTOWN DEPOT STORE OPERATIONS SERVES VISITORS WITH THE ABILITY TO PURCHASE EDUCATIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE ITEMS TO ENHANCE THEIR VISITOR EXPERIENCE.

  Expenses $225,754 · Revenue $118,221

As filed on the 2025 return. The first 10 program lines listed; the rest are in the source return and the API. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $5,218,578

  Expenses

  $5,689,684

  Contributions

  $1,302,746

  Grants paid

  $466,025

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,914,472

  Expenses

  $4,982,610

  Contributions

  $1,520,865

  Grants paid

  $5,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,664,930

  Expenses

  $5,262,798

  Contributions

  $3,010,986

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,734,766

  Expenses

  $3,976,262

  Contributions

  $1,237,219

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $3,874,416

  Expenses

  $2,793,797

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,474,601

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,479,460

  Expenses

  $2,467,802

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,939,015

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,834,912

  Expenses

  $4,116,002

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,876,340

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,726,400

  Expenses

  $3,112,309

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,570,256

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,588,577

  Expenses

  $2,945,986

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,248,280

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,922,795

  Expenses

  $2,829,619

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,476,832

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,821,823

  Expenses

  $2,646,521

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,274,704

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,838,199

  Expenses

  $2,183,409

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,350,013

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

• US-CHINA RAILROAD FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

  $0

  2025 · THE REPLICA TRAIN WAS DONATED TO AN ORGANIZATION WHICH PRESERVES AND PROMOTES INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD HERITAGE.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND INC

  $16,077

  2022 · BLINDNESS PROJECTS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $7,860

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,485

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $5,000

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $0 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $0 to charity

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $1,000 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $575 to charity

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $2,250 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,450 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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