Washington · Nonprofit
AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST
AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,286,197 to it, the largest being B CORRY AND DONNA J MCFARLAND FOUNDATION ($2,022,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $-118764
What Americas Automotive Trust does
Mission
America's Automotive Trust is a not-for-profit corporation committed to promoting and securing America's automotive heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
America's Automotive Trust creates an active, involved and social environment for car enthusiasts. Events and programs are held several times a year on a local and national level to educate and entertain the community.
$64,536 spent$160,280 earned by the program26% of program spendingNational Strategic Initiative: A focused effort to expand America's Automotive Trust's national footprint. Both The Drive Home, a caravan of cars driving from one point in the United States to Detroit, Michigan, and the Apex dinner in Detroit are held each year to showcase AAT's mission and cultivate car enthusiast beyond the west coast. There was no Drive Home held in 2024.
$1,572 spent$1,000 earned by the program1% of program spendingMarketing: Activities include securing appropriate funding to support and promote non-profit entities that meet America's Automotive Trust's mission and providing educational information about the development of the automobile and its impact upon American culture.
$179,351 spent73% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $941k to $2.2M (+138%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Nick Ellis
Exec Director, RPM
Board chair
Michael Towers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $250k → $609k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 85% · 2020 73% · 2021 54% · 2022 71% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
15% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- LeMay Americas Car Museum · exempt
- RPM Foundation · exempt
- LeMay Dome Parking Association · exempt
- Harold E Lemay Museum · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST?
- AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,286,197 to it, the largest being B CORRY AND DONNA J MCFARLAND FOUNDATION ($2,022,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,286,197 in grants to AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST?
- B CORRY AND DONNA J MCFARLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,022,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAS AUTOMOTIVE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing