Paradise and Pacific Railroad
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273800878
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6028262996
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Children's Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,020
- Expenses
- $29,697
- Assets
- $240,828
- Liabilities
- $2,842
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dana Price (President)
- Chris Allen (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dana Price (President)
- Chris Allen (Vice President)
- Wayn Rowe (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
The Paradise and Pacific Railroad's primary exempt purpose is to educate the public regarding the history and importance of railroading in America through the building, operation, and public exhibition of a dynamic, elaborate, live operating O Gauge model railroad layout in a public venue.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have built and operate a working O Gauge model railroad exhibit in the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, Arizona. During 2025 we were open to the public for twelve months, and hosted in excess of two hundred seventy three thousand (273,000) visitors, all of whom were admitted free of charge as an integral part of our public service. In addition, we actively participated in public events such as Holiday Lights (evenings for six weeks), and "Spook Track-U-La" (halloween, evenings for three weeks), and Rail Fair, where we acted as model railroading ambassadors and provided materials and service on a pro bono basis. All of the work in the construction, maintenance, and operation of the layout, as well as our public outreach efforts, has been done by volunteers. Our 115+ volunteers donated in excess of 3,500 man-hours during 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.11; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.