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CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH

EIN 01-0779978 ANN ARBOR, MI

Revenue 2024
$2,731,015
Expenses 2024
$2,715,322

Program services were 62.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U05
Classification
1000
Street
880 TECHNOLOGY DR STE C

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).

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.

  • DR ANDREW BROWN JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • JOHN BOZZELLA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • ED KNAPP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MIKE PUTZ CPA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • ALAN AMICI

    PRESIDENT AND CEO JAN-SEP

    Total calculated
    $221,600
    From this org
    $211,532
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,068
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,532
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,818
    Filer's total
    $221,600

  • DR ANUJA SONALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MICHAEL PRESS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR DON HILLEBRAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DAN NICHOLSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • KRISTEN TABAR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • JULIA REGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • JOHN ROBB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • BILL LONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • ERIC WILDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • CHERIE VAN ALLEN

    TREASURER, V-P OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $125,759
    From this org
    $111,087
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,672
    Hours/week
    40

  • K VENKATESH PRASAD

    SENIOR VP OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $170,603
    From this org
    $161,879
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,724
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,879
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,224
    Filer's total
    $170,603

  • STEVEN POLAKOWSKI

    VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT JAN-JUNE

    Total calculated
    $95,477
    From this org
    $80,861
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,616
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAVID LECKEY

    INTERIM CEO OCT-DEC

    Total calculated
    $58,334
    From this org
    $58,334
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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 — 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
    $2,731,015
    Expenses
    $2,715,322
    Contributions
    $1,385,636
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,246,645
    Expenses
    $3,486,300
    Contributions
    $1,284,853
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,687,576
    Expenses
    $3,125,432
    Contributions
    $871,590
    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.

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 10 September 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.