- Revenue 2025
- $2,227,923
- Expenses 2025
- $1,565,280
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A82
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 11017
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
THE PURPOSE OF THE FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC IS TO RESTORE AND PRESERVE HISTORICAL RAILROAD EQUIPMENT AND ARTIFACTS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT TO NORTHEAST INDIANA. OUR INTENT IS TO RESTORE AND OPERATE THE EQUIOPMENT AND ARTIFACTS TO THE PUBLIC.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE PURPOSE OF THE FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY,INC. IS TO RESTORE AND PRESERVE HISTORICAL RAILROAD EQUIPMENT AND ARTIFACTS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT TO THE NORTHEAST INDIANA AREA. OUR INTENT IS TO RESTORE AND OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT ANT ARTIFACTS TO THE PUBLIC.
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MOVEMENT OF PASSENGER CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES
Expenses $827,191 · Grants $218,861 · Revenue $1,139,801
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PROTECTION OF ARTIFACTS AND PROVIDE LIABILITY INSURANCE.
Expenses $333,831
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UTILITIES AND UPKEEP OF MUSEUM FACIILTIES
Expenses $230,943
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ADMINISTRATIVE, OFFICE SUPPLIES, WEBSITE, SHIPPING.
Expenses $173,315
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.
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Kelly C LynchKELLY C LYNCH
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $89,149
- From this org
- $89,149
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
-
Joe KnapkeJOE KNAPKE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Wayne YorkWAYNE YORK
DIRECTOR / SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
William D MillerWILLIAM D MILLER
DIRECTOR / TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 32
-
Zach HallZACH HALL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Andrew BrackinANDREW BRACKIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Steve WinickerSTEVE WINICKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Chuck YoungCHUCK YOUNG
DIRECTOR / PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
William MartzWILLIAM MARTZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 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
- $2,227,923
- Expenses
- $1,565,280
- Contributions
- $964,815
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,977,252
- Expenses
- $2,373,244
- Contributions
- $647,509
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,743,457
- Expenses
- $1,427,825
- Contributions
- $928,486
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $1,279,385
- Expenses
- $658,593
- Contributions
- $761,804
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $361,377
- Expenses
- $208,954
- Assets (EOY)
- $766,869
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $106,834
- Expenses
- $152,934
- Assets (EOY)
- $617,966
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $729,395
- Expenses
- $600,597
- Assets (EOY)
- $610,228
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
-
$500,000
2022 Car, Station Acquisition, and Development
-
$215,000
2023 NYCEmpire Coach, Mountain Park, Passenger Car Servicing Area and Special Project
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$202,111
2024 Proposal deliverables from Sept. 2024 meeting
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$15,000
2022 CAPITAL
-
2023 PROGRAMS
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$13,500
2023 HSG GRANTS
-
2022 PROGRAMS
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$11,000
2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.