San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum
San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum
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About this organization
Mission
The San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum is a non-profit educational institution founded to preserve and present the railroad history of California and specifically the central coast. We are open every Saturday and have special events throughout the year. Our 2 biggest are San Luis Obispo Train Days in May and Central Coast Railroad Festival the first weekend in October.
About
The museum is open every Saturday for the education and benefit of the community. The museum has displays of central coast railroading and a model railroad depicting the area around the middle of the 20th century. The museum also publishes a newletter called the 'Coast Mail', quarterly on line news updates calles 'From the Freight House', Twitter, Facebook and a website.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing specifies the mission of the non-profit as “The san luis obispo railroad museum is a non-profit educational institution founded to preserve and present the railroad history of california and specifically the central coast. collecting, restoring, and displaying relevant railroad artificats, photographs and documents are its goals. this effort is supplemented by creating models, displays and graphics as well as operating historic railroad equipment to facilitate a better understanding of how railroads have affected our area's social cultural and ecomonic history.”.
When explaining its duties, they were described as: “The san luis obispo railroad museum is a non-profit educational institution founded to preserve and present the railroad history of california and specifically the central coast. we are open every saturday and have special events throughout the year. our 2 biggest are san luis obispo train days in may and central coast railroad festival the first weekend in october.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is authorized to operate legally is CA.
- According to the filing, the address of the non-profit for the year 2020 is 1940 SANTA BARBARA STREET, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, 93401.
- The non-profit has reported 0 employees on their form for the year 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are less than $100,000.
- Revenue is less than $100,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $33,450.
- The organization has 8 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1996.
- The organization pays $0 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $0 in fundraising expenses.
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