Maryland · Nonprofit
AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION
AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,810 to it, the largest being TECHFORCE FOUNDATION ($15,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $29M
What Auto Care Association does
Mission
The Auto Care Association protects and advances the interests of businesses providing aftermarket products and services for all classes of motor vehicles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Profile and influence: enhancing its membership's profile and influence politically and financially is one of Auto Care Association's key undertakings. To that end, the association's government affairs program represents the auto care industry and its members' interests before federal and state policymakers to ensure that their concerns are recognized and understood.
Standards adoption: Auto Care Association's mission is to develop technology standards and best practices that lower costs and increase efficiencies in the auto care industry supply chain. Auto Care Association has taken a leadership role in developing standards and best practices in e-commerce and technology. Through the leadership of the Auto Care Association technology standards committee, the association has developed tools and practices that have come to be recognized as the industry standard. Standards developed specifically for the auto care industry accelerate the adoption of technology and lower the cost of integration. Auto Care Association serves as a neutral facilitator allowing competitors and trading partners from all industry segments to collaborate on solutions that benefit the entire auto care industry. Auto care solved industry supply chain challenges by enhancing an already robust set of heavy, medium, light, and off-highway duty product standards. During the tax year, Auto Care Association translated more of the vehicle configuration database to spanish and continued to add standards specific to vehicles sold in latin america.
Membership growth and retention: to continually engage its members, the association organizes or sponsors dozens of events per year to provide a forum for the industry to showcase its products, networking, and education. Many of these events are specifically for member communities who operate in specific market segments. Community members can meet to discuss common issues, make industry connections, and provide input for association activities. Aapex trade show: aapex is the largest industry automotive aftermarket trade show in north america. Thousands of automotive professionals participated in the november 2022 event of which more than 45,000 were domestic and international buyers. The number of exhibitors in 2022 was 1,407. During the show, there were educational sessions offered for service and repair professionals and managers.
Other program services: aapex trade show: aapex is the largest industry automotive aftermarket trade show in north america. Thousands of automotive professionals participated in the november 2024 event of which more than 45,000 were domestic and international buyers. The number of exhibitors in 2023 was 1,407. During the show, there were educational sessions and training sessions for service and repair professionals and managers.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $38M to $51M (+35%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
William Hanvey
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
Mike Boyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $135k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of the Aftermarket Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record — $299k federal, $191 state.
- Department of Commerce$299k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $191
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Car Care Council · exempt
- Aapex · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION: 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 AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION?
- AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,810 to it, the largest being TECHFORCE FOUNDATION ($15,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,810 in grants to AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION?
- TECHFORCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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