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TRANSIT RIDERS

EIN 45-2751950 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$198,395
Expenses 2024
$219,916

Program services were 62.6% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
J40
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 20723

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

Primary exempt purpose

TRU organizes for economic justice including better public transit, stronger renter protections & labor standards, and progressive funding for public goods and services in Seattle and King County. In 2024, our main areas of work included campaigns to raise the minimum wage; organizing to protect renters; continuing direct "mutual aid" work with people living unsheltered; and advocating for robust public goods and social services funded with progressive revenue.

  • Stay Housed Stay Healthy Coalition: TRU continued working with and helping to lead this coalition, organizing with renters and championing renter interests. In 2024, we successfully fended off plans to weaken Seattle's renter protections. We also collected information from Seattle renters about the growing problem of arbitrary and manipulative rental "junk fees" that landlords charge and created a document that we shared with elected officials. In the Seattle City Budget process, we fought with partial success to restore funding for tenant services and rental assistance that was cut in half in the mayor's proposed budget. These funds are vital to ensure that renters in distress have access to counseling, legal services, and organizing support as they try to avoid eviction or resolve other issues with their landlords. 56% of Seattle households are renters and benefit from the renter protections we are defending.

    Expenses $36,492

  • Camp Outreach Project: TRU members continued a 100% volunteer-run project providing direct assistance to the growing number of people living unsheltered in Seattle. Volunteers cooked weekly meals to serve at several homeless encampments where they built relationships and assisted the residents. They also purchased basic supplies like water, clothing, batteries and fuel, especially during the winter months. TRU members fundraised from individual supporters specifically for this project. This project served around 60 homeless individuals every week throughout the year, and over 25 TRU members and volunteers participated in running the program.

    Expenses $15,213

  • Minimum Wage: TRU supported the successful ballot initiative campaign to raise the minimum wage in Renton, and led a successful effort to pass minimum wage legislation through the King County Council for unincorporated King County. And we led a coalition campaign to qualify a minimum wage and access to hours initiative for the February 2025 ballot in Burien. Raising the minimum wage in these jurisdictions will benefit thousands of low-wage workers.

    Expenses $65,856

  • Progressive Revenue and Budget Advocacy: TRU led a community-labor coalition to advocate for new progressive revenue during the Seattle budget process and to push back against shifting JumpStart payroll expense tax funding away from affordable housing, equitable development, and climate resilience programs. All Seattle residents benefit from the programs and services we are fighting to protect against cuts.

    Expenses $20,001

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.

  • Katie Wilson

    President / General Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Beau Morton

    Vice President / Assisting Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anthony D'Amico

    Recording Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Austin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kristina Sawyckyj

    Disability & Access Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $198,395
    Expenses
    $219,916
    Contributions
    $198,395
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $196,666
    Expenses
    $235,447
    Contributions
    $196,666
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $247,178
    Expenses
    $293,957
    Contributions
    $247,178
    Grants paid
    $29,000

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
    $204,320
    Expenses
    $133,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,480

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Katherine Wilson
Mailing address
PO Box 20723Seattle WA 98102
Website
transitriders.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • RVC Seattle

    $29,000

    2022 This was a re-grant of a grant TRU received for work opposing the siting of an Amazon distribution center in Seattle. The re-grant went wholly toward contributing to the salary of an organizer who, among other duties, coordinated the campaign. TRU was working in coalition with RVC Seattle / Creative Justice on this campaign.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2014, reinstated 15 May 2014.

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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.