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AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

EIN 54-2039775 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$2,655,285
Expenses 2024
$2,445,528

Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M059
Classification
2000
Street
80 M ST SE STE 800

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

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 800). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY'S ESSENTIAL ROLE IN A SAFE, EFFICIENT AND VIABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PERFORM EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PERFORMED WORK ON VARIOUS GOVERNMENT SPONSORED, TRANSPORTATION RELATED RESEARCH CONTRACTS.

    Expenses $1,924,630 · Grants $2,500 · Revenue $1,000

  • THE ORGANIZATION PERFORMED WORK ON VARIOUS BOARD-APPROVED AND INDUSTRY-FUNDED RESEARCH AND THESE COSTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DISSEMINATING THE RESEARCH FINDINGS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $6,230

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Christopher Spear

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $3,053,292
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $3,014,727
    Other
    $38,565
    Hours/week
    5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,925,105 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,087,300 related
    Other
    $0 + $2,322 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $8,625 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,940 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $3,053,292 related
  • Rebecca Brewster

    PRESIDENT & COO, BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $465,092
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $424,856
    Other
    $40,236
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $351,292 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $70,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $3,564 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $10,296 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,940 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $465,092 related
  • Daniel Murray

    SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $282,892
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $245,005
    Other
    $37,887
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $223,739 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $18,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $3,266 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,209 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,678 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $282,892 related
  • Jeffrey Short

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $205,687
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $169,673
    Other
    $36,014
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $160,653 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $8,500 related
    Other
    $0 + $520 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,336 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,678 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $205,687 related
  • Derek J Leathers

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 2 related
  • Hugh Ekberg

    TREASURER UNTIL OCTOBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Harold Sumerford

    TREASURER AS OF OCTOBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Brenda Neville Cae

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew T Boyle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 15 related
  • Robert E Low

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Benjamin McLean

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Burg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John A Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related
  • Brett Merritt

    DIRECTOR AS OF MAY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Boyle

    DIRECTOR AS OF OCTOBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Srikanth Padmanabhan

    DIRECTOR UNTIL MAY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dennis A Nash

    DIRECTOR UNTIL MARCH

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Lou Rivieccio

    DIRECTOR UNTIL APRIL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,655,285
    Expenses
    $2,445,528
    Contributions
    $2,653,952
    Grants paid
    $2,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,906,047
    Expenses
    $2,442,064
    Contributions
    $2,905,430
    Grants paid
    $4,583
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,641,779
    Expenses
    $2,303,378
    Contributions
    $2,641,004
    Grants paid
    $2,917

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
    $2,618,936
    Expenses
    $2,233,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,958,171
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,304,516
    Expenses
    $1,973,302
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,250,071
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,174,998
    Expenses
    $2,040,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,085,373
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,218,639
    Expenses
    $2,145,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,936,583
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,248,727
    Expenses
    $2,119,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,959,659
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,366,093
    Expenses
    $2,180,085
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,836,484
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,570,644
    Expenses
    $2,067,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,414,219
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,011,827
    Expenses
    $2,040,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $896,062
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,134,274
    Expenses
    $2,119,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $952,150
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,999,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,082,059

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • ATA SERVICES INC AND SUBSIDIARY

    C · INACTIVE · VA

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.