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AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC

EIN 35-1294918 AUBURN, IN

Revenue 2025
$3,164,239
Expenses 2025
$2,791,010

Program services were 76.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A500
Classification
2300
Street
1600 WAYNE ST

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 · 2025

Mission

AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE, INC., DBA THE AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM, AN EDUCATIONAL NONPROFIT 501(C)(3), IS AN ART DECO TREASURE, FAITHFULLY PRESENTING ITS ORIGINAL 1930'S GRANDEUR - A PLACE WHERE LANDMARK AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION WAS ONCE A DAILY OCCURRENCE. IT IS THE ONLY AUTO MUSEUM ANYWHERE OCCUPYING AN AUTO MANUFACTURER'S INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BUILDING. IT INCLUDES THE ACTUAL FACTORY SHOWROOM, DESIGN STUDIOS AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF AN AMERICAN THOROUGHBRED AUTO MAKER. IN THE MUSEUM BUILDING, THE DESIGNERS, INNOVATORS AND ENGINEERS WORKED. IT IS NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT AS ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING EXAMPLES OF AN INDEPENDENT SPECIALTY AUTOMOBILE COMPANY THAT MADE HAND-ASSEMBLED RATHER THAN MASS-PRODUCED AUTOMOBILES. SINCE THEIR INCEPTION, AUTOMOBILES DESIGNED AND BUILT HERE ARE HIGHLY PRIZED AROUND THE WORLD. THE MUSEUM NOT ONLY HONORS THREE EXTRAORDINARY MOTORCARS FROM AMERICA'S AUTOMOTIVE GOLDEN AGE - THE AUBURN, CORD AND DUESENBERG - BUT ALSO DOZENS OF OTHER

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRESERVE THE PAST AND PROVIDE MULTIGENERATIONAL AUDIENCES AN EDUCATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY EXPLORING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY WHILE LEVERAGING THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION.

  • ADMISSIONS PROVIDED 40,771 VISITORS AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE VIEWING THE COLLECTION, EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS IN THE NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING 362 DAYS OF THE YEAR. THE MUSEUM IS ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS.

    Expenses $1,778,130 · Revenue $305,270

  • THE MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO SPECIAL EVENTS OFFERED BY THE MUSEUM AND IT IS AVAILABLE FOR GROUPS TO HOLD BANQUETS AND MEETINGS AND TOURING THE MUSEUM.

    Expenses $219,315 · Revenue $153,701

  • THE MUSEUM STORE PROVIDES MISSION RELATED PRODUCTS FOR VISITORS TO PURCHASE. THEY INCLUDE BOOKS, MODELS, CLOTHING, LITERATURE AND OTHER ITEMS, ALL RELATING TO AUTOMOBILES OR THE MUSEUM.

    Expenses $146,084 · Revenue $3,105

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BRANDON J ANDERSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $150,949
    From this org
    $140,869
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,080
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,869
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,080
    Filer's total
    $150,949

  • HERB HORROM

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERRY HINES

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL KAUTZ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX VORDERMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TROY ACKERMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN BABINSKY

    TRUSTEE THRO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL BARNEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUE BAUERMEISTER

    TRUSTEE THRO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BOOLS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMBER CACCAMO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE EIKENBERRY

    TRUSTEE THRO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES GOODMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSEY GREENE-BARRETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK GUZIK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB JOYNT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM LEE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE MCCLELLAND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN MERUSI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN METZGER

    TRUSTEE THRO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE PAYNE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN STECKBECK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,164,239
    Expenses
    $2,791,010
    Contributions
    $2,105,598
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,693,142
    Expenses
    $1,968,662
    Contributions
    $2,849,501
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,657,821
    Expenses
    $2,770,762
    Contributions
    $6,973,363
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,814,906
    Expenses
    $1,929,547
    Contributions
    $1,062,625
    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
    $1,990,810
    Expenses
    $1,646,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,968,955

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,505,933
    Expenses
    $2,255,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,583,438

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,012,689
    Expenses
    $4,967,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,175,974

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,139,153
    Expenses
    $1,778,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,057,694

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,139,153
    Expenses
    $1,778,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,057,694

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,534,033
    Expenses
    $1,984,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,754,198

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.

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.