Northwest Jersey Hi-railers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202600446
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Boonton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9735531555
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,927
- Expenses
- $97,696
- Assets
- $99,406
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ben Fioriello (President)
People named in this filing
- Eric Wenslau (Treasurer)
- Ben Fioriello (President)
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
To operate a historical model railroad museum and to stimulate interest and provide education in both model railroading and full scale operational railroading both past and present. The operating model train layout that is maintained by the organization accurately portrays local railroading. Planned exhibits will be open to the public at set intervals and model trains will be run at these events. To maintain an educational organization for the study of American railroading past and present; providing an organization where members and the general public can learn modeling and other related skills both from fellow members and from outside speakers We will be providing access to history of railroading in the United States to school groups and the public at large. We will be providing exhibits of steam, electric, and diesel trains. A library of material pertaining to model railroading will be maintained. To maintain a website where model railroading can be discussed .
What it reported doing in 2025
Held 4 open houses to promote railroad history and model railroading. Club was displaced midway through 2025 and spent the second half of 2025 preparing our new location.
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: 74
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
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: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th 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 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.