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RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION

EIN 52-1203707 WASHINGTON, DC

Browse the largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$9,604,768
Expenses 2024
$9,489,844

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
425 3RD ST SW STE 1150

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 · 2024

Mission

ORGANIZATION PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO THE PUBLIC, INDUSTRY, AND GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND USE OF RENEWABLE FUELS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ORGANIZATION PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO PUBLIC INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT CONCERNING

  • PROVIDED MEMBERS WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS AND STUDIES ON PUBLIC POLICY, ECONOMIC IMPACTS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

  • PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH WEEKLY UPDATES ON TECHNICAL, LEGISLATIVE, MARKETING, CO-PRODUCTS, VEHICLES, AND OTHER AREAS RELATED TO RENEWABLE FUELS.

  • THE RFA'S ANNUAL INDUSTRY OUTLOOK IS PRODUCED AND PROVIDES THE PUBLIC WITH INFORMATION REGARDING THE RENEWABLE FUELS INDUSTRY.

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.

  • Geoffrey C Cooper

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $654,181
    From this org
    $557,442
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $96,739
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $417,442
    Bonus
    $140,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $63,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,739
    Filer's total
    $654,181
  • Jeff Oestmann

    RFA CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Derek Peine

    RFA VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Zimmerman

    RFA TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Winters

    RFA SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alex Menotti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Howell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Pracht

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Brian Kletscher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chad Friese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Ludwig

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Mitchell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Chuck Woodside

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Short

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dave Sovereign

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ed Stewart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erik Huschitt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Baukol

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Fobes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric McAfee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Mosbey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeanne McCaherty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jonathan Cosby

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathy Bergren

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $9,604,768
    Expenses
    $9,489,844
    Contributions
    $739,920
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,806,335
    Expenses
    $8,922,490
    Contributions
    $672,850
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,188,012
    Expenses
    $7,442,882
    Contributions
    $659,875
    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
    $6,717,767
    Expenses
    $6,647,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,458,234
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,762,820
    Expenses
    $7,691,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,944,429
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,495,266
    Expenses
    $7,260,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,675,784
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,447,860
    Expenses
    $8,979,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,779,191
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,853,980
    Expenses
    $8,680,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,306,271
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,604,565
    Expenses
    $7,916,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,277,039
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,180,550
    Expenses
    $7,506,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,166,815
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,359,012
    Expenses
    $6,737,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,774,254
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,003,919
    Expenses
    $8,026,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,199,753
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $7,992,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,778,669

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

  • RENEWABLE FUELS FOUNDATION

    501(C)(3) · FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL STUDIES · DC · controlled entity

  • RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION PAC

    527 · POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES · DC · controlled entity

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.