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B & O RAILROAD MUSEUM

EIN 52-1535426 BALTIMORE, MD

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Revenue 2024
$7,275,472
Expenses 2024
$7,421,269

Program services were 81.1% 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
901 W PRATT 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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 PRESERVE THE PHYSICAL LEGACY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN RAILROADING, TO INTERPRET AND PRESENT ITS HISTORY TO THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE AND TO DEVELOP PROGRAMS WHICH BROADEN AND DEEPEN PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LIFE, ESPECIALLY IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, STATE OF MARYLAND, AND THE REGION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRESERVE THE PHYSICAL LEGACY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN RAILROADING AND TO DEVELOP PROGRAMS WHICH BROADEN AND DEEPEN PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SIGIFICANCE OF THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LIFE BY COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND INTERPRETING HISTORICAL RAILROAD DOCUMENTS, DATA, ETC. THE MUSEUM OFFERS REGULARLY SCHEDULED TRAIN RIDES, DEMONSTRATIONS OF HISTORIC RAILROADING EQUIPMENT IN THE ROUNDHOUSE, AND TOURS OF OUR SHOP FACILITY WHERE VISITORS CAN WITNESS CRAFTSMEN ACTIVELY RESTORE HISTORIC LOCOMOTIVES. THE MUSEUM ALSO OFFERS MAJOR PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND RAILROAD CULTURE.

  • DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS WHICH BROADEN AND DEEPEN THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LIFE BY COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND INTERPRETING HISTORICAL RAILROAD DOCUMENTS, DATA, ETC. THE MUSEUM OFFERS REGULARLY SCHEDULED TRAIN RIDES, DEMONSTRATIONS OF HISTORIC RAILROADING EQUIPMENT IN THE ROUNDHOUSE, AND TOURS OF OUR SHOP FACILITY WHERE VISITORS CAN WITNESS CRAFTSMEN ACTIVELY RESTORING HISTORIC LOCOMOTIVES. THE MUSEUM ALSO OFFERS MAJOR PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND RAILROAD CULTURE.

    Expenses $5,970,773 · Revenue $2,516,027

  • TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN AN EQUESTRIAN FACILITY FOR MUSEUM PROGRAMMING AND SECURITY

    Expenses $50,673

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Francis X Smyth

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Suzzanne Decker

    CORPORATE SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joshua Warfield

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Rebecca Altman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cathrin Banks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve J Banks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anirban Basu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brittany Bramhall

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janet Currie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joseph Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ronald W Drucker

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory Farno

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rian Hargrave

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Thomas Hendrickson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Jacoby

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruno Maestri

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Magness

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Frank Moffa

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anthony Parker

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Pilkerton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory C Pinkard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • George S Rich

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig D Roswell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam F Sandy

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,275,472
    Expenses
    $7,421,269
    Contributions
    $3,193,963
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,023,515
    Expenses
    $6,845,960
    Contributions
    $5,325,899
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,606,730
    Expenses
    $5,689,747
    Contributions
    $8,669,387
    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
    $6,418,900
    Expenses
    $4,971,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,054,083
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,473,800
    Expenses
    $3,864,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,274,881
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,520,082
    Expenses
    $4,171,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,887,510
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,462,319
    Expenses
    $4,549,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,266,200
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,341,684
    Expenses
    $4,448,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,140,303
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,476,827
    Expenses
    $4,720,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,164,272
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,820,324
    Expenses
    $4,743,660
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,037,769
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,770,406
    Expenses
    $4,211,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,258,693
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,244,994
    Expenses
    $4,299,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,154,562
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,787,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,419,989

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

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

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 2024 return

  • B&O 200 FUND INC

    501(C)(3) · ACT AS A LEVERAGED LENDER IN ONE OR MORE NMTC FINANCING AGREEMENTS · MD · controlled entity

Declared as related by

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 2024 return

  • FIRST MILE STABLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LLC

    TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE AND OTHER RELATED PURPOSES OF THE MUSEUM · MD · assets $2,933,507

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.