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RPM FOUNDATION

EIN 20-2102643 TACOMA, WA

Revenue 2023
$467,101
Expenses 2023
$376,304

Program services were 78.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
2000
Street
2702 E D ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America's Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by the RPM Foundation safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America's Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by the RPM Foundation safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults. The RPM Foundation is based in Chicago, IL, and Ambassadors nationwide.

  • The RPM Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that critical skills necessary to preserve and restore collector vehicles are not lost by providing scholarships and educational grants to students and organizations committed to hands-on training of the trades. Total scholarships granted = 10.

    Expenses $295,369 · Grants $26,180 · Revenue $500

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Madeira

    Vice Chair & CEO,AAT

    Total calculated
    $360,169
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $333,197
    Other
    $26,972
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 39.95 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $283,197 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $50,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $26,972 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $360,169 related

  • Paul Miller

    Sr Vice Pres, AAT

    Total calculated
    $256,535
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $221,023
    Other
    $35,512
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 39.95 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $196,023 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $25,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $18,056 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,456 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $256,535 related

  • Gary Yamamoto

    Exec Director, ACM

    Total calculated
    $190,748
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $166,310
    Other
    $24,438
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 39.95 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $166,310 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $16,040 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $8,398 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $190,748 related

  • Nick Ellis

    Exec Director, RPM

    Total calculated
    $112,832
    From this org
    $97,639
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,193
    Hours/week
    38.9 + 1.1 related

  • TG Mittler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Sam Baker Jr

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • B Corry McFarland

    Past Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • William Weyerhaeuser

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • James Gary May

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Michael Towers

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Gerald Greenfield

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Trevor Cobb

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.6 related

  • Gary Gartner

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Michael Holmes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Alan Granberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

  • Keith Flickinger

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05 + 1.1 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $467,101
    Expenses
    $376,304
    Contributions
    $466,601
    Grants paid
    $26,180
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $282,480
    Expenses
    $469,781
    Contributions
    $282,286
    Grants paid
    $118,903

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,412
    Expenses
    $430,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $749,647

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $165,778
    Expenses
    $378,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $652,906

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $898,973
    Expenses
    $783,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $811,894

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $594,519
    Expenses
    $726,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,998

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $578,113
    Expenses
    $704,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $813,908

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $551,827
    Expenses
    $563,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $936,260

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,864
    Expenses
    $192,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $739,510

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $463,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $744,749

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $350,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $943,139

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SO.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.