Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

TRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC

EIN 38-3588943 DETROIT, MI

Revenue 2024
$331,276
Expenses 2024
$316,843

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W99
Classification
1200
Street
440 BURROUGHS ST STE 610

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

TRU BELIEVES EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. WE EDUCATE, MOBILIZE, AND ADVOCATE FOR MORE AND BETTER PUBLIC TRANSIT AND OTHER AFFORDABLE MOBILITY OPTIONS THROUGHOUT METRO DETROIT.

  • BUS IMPROVEMENT ADVOCACY - EDUCATING ABOUT, MOBILIZING AROUND, AND ADVOCATING FOR EXPANSION OF AND IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCAL BUS AND PARATRANSIT SERVICE AND FUNDING, ESPECIALLY FOR THE DETROIT AREA'S SMART AND DDOT BUS SERVICES.

    Expenses $53,468

  • COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT - INFORMING AND ENGAGING TRANSIT STAKEHOLDERS AND THE BROADER PUBLIC ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RELATED NEWS, EVENTS, AND OPPORTUNITY FOR INVOLVEMENT.

    Expenses $112,162

  • CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ADVOCACY - RESEARCHING AND COMMUNICATING THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AS WELL AS ORGANIZING, MOBILIZING, AND ADVOCATING FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION POLICIES AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS TO MINIMIZE THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS.

    Expenses $44,436

  • TRANSIT FUNDING ADVOCACY - EDUCATING ABOUT, MOBILIZING AROUND, AND ADVOCATING FOR GREATER TRANSIT FUNDING AND MORE BALANCED TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS AT THE REGIONAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS, INCLUDING FOR RAIL, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND HIGHWAY REPLACEMENTS.

    Expenses $27,565

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MEGAN OWENS

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $71,269
    From this org
    $71,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • NICOLE BROWN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADAM GOODMAN

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FARAI GUNDAN

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREGORY JAKUB

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MITCH MANTEY

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTEN MILEFCHIK

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COREY ROWE

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DONALD STUCKEY

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY THOMPSON

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN TITUS

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLESETTA WILSON

    BOARD OF DIR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $331,276
    Expenses
    $316,843
    Contributions
    $331,276
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $236,960
    Expenses
    $283,589
    Contributions
    $236,960
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $247,637
    Expenses
    $203,885
    Contributions
    $247,637
    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
    $121,801
    Expenses
    $129,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,961

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $161,116
    Expenses
    $149,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,317

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $105,508
    Expenses
    $127,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,938

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $171,867
    Expenses
    $150,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,142

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $162,726
    Expenses
    $138,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,273

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,950
    Expenses
    $181,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,077

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $157,537
    Expenses
    $194,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,989

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $165,968
    Expenses
    $243,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,958

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $244,439
    Expenses
    $230,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,410

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $232,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,783

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