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WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC

EIN 16-1572964 WATKINS GLEN, NY

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Revenue 2025
$1,377,697
Expenses 2025
$1,176,476

Program services were 22.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
1200
Street
610 S DECATUR 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE INTERNATIONAL MOTOR RACING RESEARCH CENTER COLLECTS, SHARES AND PRESERVES THE HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS. SPANNING CONTINENTS, ERAS AND RACE SERIES, THE CENTER'S COLLECTION EMBODIES THE SPEED, DRAMA AND CAMARADERIE OF AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL MOTOR RACING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE CENTER WELCOMES SERIOUS RESEARCHERS AND THE CASUAL FANS ALIKE TO SHARE STORIES OF RACE DRIVERS, RACE SERIES, AND RACE CARS CAPTURED ON OUR SHELVES AND WALLS, AND BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH A REGULAR CALENDAR OF PUBLIC LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS. THE CENTER'S COLLECTION DOCUMENTS THE HISTORY OF RACING IN THE MORE THAN 4000 BOOKS OR 250 DIFFERENT MOTORSPORTS MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS TITLES; CLUB AND SANCTIONING BODY RECORDS; RACE RESULTS, PROGRAMS AND POSTERS; PAPERS OF MOTORSPORTS JOURNALISTS AND SCHOLARS; CORRESPONDENCE OF RACE ORGANIZERS; AND STILL AND MOVING IMAGES HOUSED ONSITE AND IN OUR EXPANDING OFFSITE COLLECTIONS STORAGE FACILITIES. ITS KNOWLEDGEABLE RESEARCH AND ARCHIVES STAFF ASSISTS HUNDRE

  • A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF RESEARCH AND ARCHIVAL MATERIALS DOCUMENTING THE HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS ARE ACQUIRED THROUGH DONATION AND MAINTAINED AS A RESOURCE FOR THE RACING COMMUNITY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE CENTER SERVES AS THE CUSTODIAN OF THE ARCHIVES OF THE SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA, THE LARGEST CLUB FOR AUTOMOBILE RACING IN THE UNITED STATES. IT SHARES ITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS THROUGH AN ACTIVE RESEARCH AND REFERENCE SERVICES PROGRAM, PUBLIC EVENTS, AND EXHIBITIONS AS WELL AS ONLINE UTILIZING ITS WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, AND ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS.

    Expenses $265,635 · Revenue $24,738

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Margaret Lawrence

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mark Steigerwald

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THROUGH 7/2025

    Total calculated
    $65,665
    From this org
    $65,665
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John R Saunders

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Larry Kessler

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bill Branson

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Scott Welliver

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Beren Argetsinger

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dawn Burlew

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nicholas Craw

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Phyllisa Desarno

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Evan Fay Earle

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Cgorsline

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Phil Henderson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Kanaley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rob Roessel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dinah Gueldenpfennig Weisberg

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chip Wile

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chris Dyson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,377,697
    Expenses
    $1,176,476
    Contributions
    $1,018,978
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,169,325
    Expenses
    $959,855
    Contributions
    $844,547
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $580,566
    Expenses
    $726,224
    Contributions
    $486,850
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $904,156
    Expenses
    $876,096
    Contributions
    $586,153
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,213,065
    Expenses
    $806,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,496,575

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $794,375
    Expenses
    $717,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,874,605

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $650,586
    Expenses
    $554,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,466,605

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $842,664
    Expenses
    $682,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,948,242

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $561,235
    Expenses
    $627,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,136,122

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.