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LOST RAILWAY MUSEUM

EIN 47-5410254 GRASS LAKE, MI

Revenue 2025
$223,894
Expenses 2025
$182,967

Program services were 58.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 574

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

Mission

DEMONSTRATE THE VITAL ROLE RAILROADS AND INTERURBAN RAILWAY SYSTEM PLAYED IN THE GROWTH OF GRASS LAKE AREA AS WELL AS MICHIGAN BY DISPLAYING AN ACTUAL ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAIL CAR AND RELATED ARTIFACTS.

  • DISPLAY INTERURBAN RAIL CARS AND OTHER HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY SYSTEM THAT USED TO BE THE PRIMARY MODE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

    Expenses $107,204

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • PAULA AUTRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • WENDY CHIDO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • DAWN CUDDIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • JANET EPP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • MATT MCKERNAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • SANDRA RICHARDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • STEVE RUDOLPH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • DARLENE SCOUTEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JIM STORMONT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • JAMIE WILLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • PHIL WILLIS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • CONNIE WORTMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $223,894
    Expenses
    $182,967
    Contributions
    $183,370
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $180,870
    Expenses
    $160,458
    Contributions
    $175,948
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $288,094
    Expenses
    $183,754
    Contributions
    $283,744
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $292,513
    Expenses
    $147,814
    Contributions
    $274,306
    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
    $223,250
    Expenses
    $106,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,066,504
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $129,418
    Expenses
    $124,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,066,536
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $173,980
    Expenses
    $131,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,057,876
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $217,907
    Expenses
    $113,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,049,527
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $217,907
    Expenses
    $113,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,049,527
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,127
    Expenses
    $79,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,117,842
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $484,638
    Expenses
    $20,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,741

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.