Conrail Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232794952
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Dingmans Ferry, PA, USA
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,069
- Expenses
- $36,273
- Assets
- $69,169
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brock Kerchner (President)
- Jim Stanton (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brock Kerchner (President)
- Jim Stanton (Vice President)
- Robert Sartain (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Historic Preservation of Conrail
What it reported doing in 2025
In late 2019, The Conrail Historical Society inquired with CSX Transportation about the availability of an ex-Conrail 86-foot boxcar that could house The CRHS's growing collection of Conrail archival material and make it accessible to researchers and the public. The CRHS's growing collection of Conrail archival material and make it accessible to researchers and the public. CSX graciously sourced former Conrail X67 boxcar #243880 as it was being retired from active service and donated it to The CRHS in January of 2020. This work was funded with a grant Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation, which was recorded in the 2021 tax year. Throughout 2022 and early 2023, a new interior was framed out, an HVAC system was installed to climate control the space, and a state-of-the-art museum was developed to display a portion of The CRHS's artifact collection. A room at one end of the car was built to house The CRHS's extensive archives, and the entire boxcar was fitted with a timed lock to permit sunrise-to-sundown operation 365 days a year. The Conrail Museum opened the public following a brief ceremony on April 1, 2023 the 47th anniversary of Conrail's formation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.