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TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC

EIN 38-2847396 TRAVERSE CITY, MI

Revenue 2024
$4,655,572
Expenses 2024
$2,423,371

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
148 E FRONT ST STE 201

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

TO BRING TRAILS TO LIFE.

  • DURING THE YEAR TART ADVANCED MAJOR CAPITAL AND PROGRAMMATIC INITIATIVES TO EXPAND AND STRENGTHEN THE REGIONAL TRAIL NETWORK. SIGNIFICANT EXPENSES SUPPORTED THE ACQUISITION OF KEY PROPERTIES TO SECURE PUBLIC ACCESS AND LONG-TERM TRAIL INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING PROPERTY IN TORCH LAKE TOWNSHIP, ANTRIM COUNTY, TO ESTABLISH A CRITICAL TRAILHEAD, AND PROPERTY IN LEELANAU COUNTY ALONG THE LEELANAU TRAIL TO SERVE AS A TRAILHEAD AND MAINTENANCE HUB WITH ACQUISITION COSTS OF $526,423. TART ALSO MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS ON THE THREE-MILE TRAIL PROJECT THROUGH PLANNING, ENGINEERING, AND PARTNERSHIP COORDINATION, POSITIONING THE PROJECT FOR FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION. LOOKING AHEAD, TART WILL CONTINUE INVESTING IN TRAIL CONSTRUCTION AND ACTIVATION OF NEWLY ACQUIRED PROPERTIES TO EXPAND ACCESS AND COMMUNITY CONNECTION.

    Expenses $2,003,640

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.

  • MEG ACKERMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LINDA CLINE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JESSICA ALPERS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • HEATHER JORDAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROSS HAMMERSLEY

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NAN RAY

    MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICK SIMONTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TARA HOCHSTETLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL BUSSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RUSS SOYRING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATT MCDONOUGH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JULIE CLARK

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $134,089
    From this org
    $126,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,081
    Hours/week
    40

  • CASEY RESSL

    DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,312
    From this org
    $109,756
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,556
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $4,655,572
    Expenses
    $2,423,371
    Contributions
    $4,422,050
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,851,307
    Expenses
    $2,213,882
    Contributions
    $3,685,259
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,978,765
    Expenses
    $2,192,913
    Contributions
    $1,874,009
    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
    $2,931,318
    Expenses
    $2,188,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,125,074

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,680,863
    Expenses
    $1,334,399
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,344,732

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,463,172
    Expenses
    $1,332,754
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,609,457

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $978,151
    Expenses
    $1,473,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,555,555

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,461,865
    Expenses
    $792,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,073,990

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,073,592
    Expenses
    $757,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,393,721

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $766,349
    Expenses
    $673,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,010,744

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $628,459
    Expenses
    $656,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,696,050

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $624,931
    Expenses
    $532,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,013,518

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $531,415
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,606,784

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

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

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