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SHIFTING GEARS USA

EIN 85-0808894 SAN RAFAEL, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$259,546
Expenses 2025
$159,438

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1200
Street
134 PAUL DR STE 101

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

OUR PRIMARY PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES ARE TO ADVANCE THE INTEREST IN, APPRECIATION FOR, ENTHUSIASM ABOUT, AND ENJOYMENT OF AUTOMOBILES IN THE COMMUNITY; PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING YOUNGER PEOPLE, ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE CULTURE AND AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY; INSPIRE OWNERSHIP, OPERATION, RESTORATION, AND PRESERVATION OF VINTAGE, CLASSIC AND MODERNIZED, EXOTIC, RACING AND SPECIAL EDITION CARS; SUPPORT PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS CELEBRATING THE AUTOMOBILE - SUCH AS CAR DRIVES, TOURS, RALLIES, SEMINARS, SHOWS AND MEETS - AND THE GOODWILL AND FELLOWSHIP ENGENDERED WHEN CAR ENTHUSIASTS GATHER FOR CAR-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL EVENTS; AND PROMOTE, ORGANIZE, AND OPERATE AN ANNUAL SHIFTING GEARS USA RALLY.

  • THROUGH OUR ANNUAL RALLY, WE RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT YOUTH EDUCATION IN THE TECHNICAL TRADES, INCLUDING AUTOMOTIVE, CONSTRUCTION AND MEDICAL ASSISTANT TRAININGS. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR CAR APPRECIATION AND PRESERVATION PROGRAM AND THE MARIN COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION'S CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.

    Expenses $159,438 · Revenue $181,600

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.

  • Charles Goodman

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mark Essman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tamara Hull

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Gary Cohen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Pete Herley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tamara Hull

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Michael MacKintosh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Michael Westbrook

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Ray Kaliski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Bryan Schwab

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Janet Evans

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Robert Simon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $259,546
    Expenses
    $159,438
    Contributions
    $77,946
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $228,261
    Expenses
    $154,648
    Contributions
    $62,556
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $179,826
    Expenses
    $149,746
    Contributions
    $19,163
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $143,895
    Expenses
    $152,351
    Contributions
    $18,900
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $116,098
    Expenses
    $102,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,810
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,998
    Expenses
    $6,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,069

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