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ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC

EIN 31-1614650 NORFOLK, NE

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Revenue 2025
$53,955,457
Expenses 2025
$51,297,630

Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1466

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

PROVIDE CHRISTIAN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

  • VOLUNTEERS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.A. "CLIMB ABOARD" ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN USING THEIR OWN VEHICLES, TIME AND EFFORT. DONATED CLEAN CLOTHING AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARE CAREFULLY SORTED AND PACKED IN BOXES AT REGIONAL WAREHOUSES ACROSS AMERICA. EACH YEAR MORE THAN 200 SEMI-TRAILER LOADS OF THESE SUPPLIES AS WELL AS FOOD, BLANKETS, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND BIBLES ARE SHIPPED WHERE MOST NEEDED IN AMERICA AND OVER 100 SEMI-TRAILER LOADS ARE SHIPPED AROUND THE WORLD FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF. THEY ARE DISTRIBUTED TO CHURCHES, HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES, PRISONS, AND SCHOOLS.

    Expenses $50,163,492 · Grants $47,372,438

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.

  • Grant Schmidt

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $95,512
    From this org
    $48,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,470
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shawn Beaudette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Bill Begeman

    CHAIRMAN OF

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Nancy Boe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jennifer Bucklew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Clark Froehlich

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Bill Meyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Aaron Otten

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Pastor Ray Wilke

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Bernie Wrede

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Larry Zimmerman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $53,955,457
    Expenses
    $51,297,630
    Contributions
    $53,546,843
    Grants paid
    $47,372,438
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,945,569
    Expenses
    $47,663,302
    Contributions
    $48,511,066
    Grants paid
    $44,598,821
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $51,205,587
    Expenses
    $50,455,726
    Contributions
    $50,936,125
    Grants paid
    $47,099,962

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

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,620,222
    Expenses
    $40,508,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,614,617

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $39,686,320
    Expenses
    $41,928,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,468,365

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,542,211
    Expenses
    $48,006,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,788,981

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $52,314,212
    Expenses
    $49,374,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,104,831

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,455,416
    Expenses
    $49,465,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,154,521

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $43,134,435
    Expenses
    $40,938,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,120,925

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • OGT LOGISTICS LLC

    TRANSPORTA · NE · assets $305,492

  • HOPE FOR THE STARVING LLC

    FOOD & PKG · NE · income $665,257 · assets $357,924

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.