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NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 23-7386340 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$284,725
Expenses 2024
$261,619

Program services were 82.8% 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
1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 400

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).

Other organizations at this address

45 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 400). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

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.

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $284,725
    Expenses
    $261,619
    Contributions
    $58,791
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $292,255
    Expenses
    $490,208
    Contributions
    $213,656
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $294,230
    Expenses
    $273,119
    Contributions
    $143,125
    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
    $208,490
    Expenses
    $201,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $677,927

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $95,269
    Expenses
    $178,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $633,669

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $273,648
    Expenses
    $164,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $775,152

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $364,954
    Expenses
    $216,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $760,059

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $212,865
    Expenses
    $226,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $714,424

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $303,458
    Expenses
    $220,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $699,846

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,400
    Expenses
    $201,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $560,895

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,020
    Expenses
    $153,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $408,960

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,760
    Expenses
    $155,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,580

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $202,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,641

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.