Youngstown Model Railroad Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
340503660
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Youngstown, OH, USA
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$40,939
Expenses
$40,346
Assets
$202,086

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dean DeMain (Vice President)
  • Bill Schnierle (Vice President)
  • Rick Austin (President)

People named in this filing

  • Dean DeMain (Vice President)
  • Bill Schnierle (Vice President)
  • John DeMain (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 purpose outlined in our charter and our defining purpose for existence: To promote advance and preserve the hobby of Model Railroading in all phases including building leasing running operating maintaining establishing and controling model railroads of whatsoever size; and in general to deal in and with Model Railroading in all phases or whatsoever kind. To this end we have formed a hobby club.

What it reported doing in 2025

We continue to open the layouts to service groups of the community including boy scouts church youth groups and other model railroad organizations

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • 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: 1.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.01; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -16.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.