PONY EXPRESS INC - A NATIONAL MEMORIAL

EIN 43-1567246 SAINT JOSEPH, MO

Revenue 2025: $903,400
Expenses 2025: $622,495

Program services were 50.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A540
Classification: 1000
Street: 914 PENN 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

Mission

THE PONY EXPRESS MUSEUM PRESERVES THE STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST FAST MAIL SERVICE THROUGH IMMERSIVE EXHIBITS, HISTORIC ARTIFACTS AND ENGAGING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES.

THE ORGANIZATION DISPLAYS ARTIFACTS AND MEMORABILIA OF THE PONY EXPRESS RIDERS AND THEIR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, ALL AT THE ORIGINAL STABLES OF THE PONY EXPRESS IN ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

Expenses $239,829 · Revenue $96,675
GIFT SHOP SALES OF MEMORABILIA AND SALES OF BOOKS THAT FURTHER VISITOR EDUCATION ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.

Expenses $33,412 · Revenue $71,479
SPECIAL EVENTS THAT PROMOTE AWARENESS FOR THE MUSEUM IN THE COMMUNITY AND PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE HISTORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.

Expenses $24,984 · Revenue $20,323
THE PONY EXPRESS NATIONAL MUSEUM'S COMMUNITY ROOM OFFERS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY A PLACE FOR GROUP MEETINGS OR OTHER GATHERINGS WITH A GENEROUS SEATING AREA FOR LARGE GROUPS.

Expenses $12,140 · Revenue $26,388
THE PONY SCHOOL IS A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE THAT FURTHERS VISITOR EDUCATION ABOUT THE EDUCATION SYSTEM DURING THE TIME PERIOD OF THE PONY EXPRESS.

Expenses $1,324 · Revenue $7,135

As filed on the 2025 return. 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.

JANA HUGHES

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
CARLA BARKSDALE

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
DAVE BUCKLES

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
LAURA BUHMAN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
DARCY CARPENTER

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
BRENDON CLARK

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
MICHAEL GOETZ IV

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
DAN HAUSMAN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
JOSEPH K HOUTS JR

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
JAMES LEHR

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
CRAIG LEWIS

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
TJ PEACHER

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
SUSAN RICH

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
LISA RIDGE

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
P GORDON ROBASKA

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
JL ROBERTSON

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
SALLY BLEDSOE

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
KAILEE SMITH

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
DAVE STEVENSON

Trustee

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$0

Hours/week

0
V CRAIG SUMNER CPA

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
JERRY LAU

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
JUDY HAUSMAN

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
STACI GRAY

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RENE ROCHAMBEAU-MCCRARY

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
RYAN DOWELL

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

10

The first 25 listed. 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

$903,400

Expenses

$622,495

Contributions

$417,462

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$1,136,657

Expenses

$575,399

Contributions

$786,697

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,565,846

Expenses

$602,849

Contributions

$1,323,897

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$708,686

Expenses

$518,007

Contributions

$479,021

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$903,400	$622,495	$417,462	$0
2024	$1,136,657	$575,399	$786,697	$0
2023	$1,565,846	$602,849	$1,323,897	$0
2022	$708,686	$518,007	$479,021	$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

$684,726

Expenses

$405,920

Assets (EOY)

$3,144,551
2020 · 990

Revenue

$380,194

Expenses

$341,741

Assets (EOY)

$2,835,913
2020 · 990

Revenue

$380,194

Expenses

$334,317

Assets (EOY)

$2,843,337
2019 · 990

Revenue

$491,368

Expenses

$367,571

Assets (EOY)

$2,690,423
2018 · 990

Revenue

$450,265

Expenses

$333,493

Assets (EOY)

$2,380,032
2017 · 990

Revenue

$411,795

Expenses

$373,209

Assets (EOY)

$2,414,474
2016 · 990

Revenue

$290,914

Expenses

$307,005

Assets (EOY)

$2,298,965
2015 · 990

Revenue

$265,168

Expenses

$306,911

Assets (EOY)

$2,272,618

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$684,726	$405,920	$3,144,551
2020	990	$380,194	$341,741	$2,835,913
2020	990	$380,194	$334,317	$2,843,337
2019	990	$491,368	$367,571	$2,690,423
2018	990	$450,265	$333,493	$2,380,032
2017	990	$411,795	$373,209	$2,414,474
2016	990	$290,914	$307,005	$2,298,965
2015	990	$265,168	$306,911	$2,272,618

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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI

$486,310

2024
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI

$22,165

2023
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI

$15,520

2025
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI

$15,000

2022

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

PONY EXPRESS PUMPKIN FEST INC

501(c)(3) · ANNUAL ACTIVITY OF COMMUNITY GATHERING TO PRESERVE HISTORY · MO

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.