Michigan · Nonprofit
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,813 to it, the largest being MOTOR AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($99,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $958k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Automotive Hall of Fame Inc does
Mission
The organization operates and maintains a hall of fame as a tribute to the men and women of the automotive industry. It provides scholarship funds, which are used to provide financial assistance to automotive students at the college or university level. Honors and celebrates teh accomplishments of individuals in the international motor vehicle industry through awards and educational programs that challenge young and old alike to higher levels of personal achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Induction ceremony - the induction ceremony is an annual award event to recognize a member in the auto industry.
$680,883 spent48% of program spendingHall of fame - the organization operates and maintains a hall of fame as a tribute to the men and women of the automotive industry.
$468,010 spent$23,461 earned by the program33% of program spendingFacility rentals - in 2025, the automotive hall of fame made its facility available for meetings, receptions, educational activities, industry gatherings, and other special events. The organization hosted approximately 12 facility rentals serving an estimated 600 attendees. Users included automotive industry organizations, nonprofit and community groups, educational institutions, businesses, and private event hosts.the facility rental program expanded public and organizational access to the automotive hall of fame and introduced new audiences to its mission, exhibitions, and automotive heritage resources. Events held at the facility also provided opportunities for industry convening, community engagement, education, and relationship-building. Revenue generated through facility rentals helped support the operation and stewardship of the hall of fame's museum, programs, and collections.
$255,130 spent$98,830 earned by the program18% of program spendingAutomotive education - the organization provides scholarship funds, which are used to provide financial assistance to autormotive students at the college or university level.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,409,023.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.9M to $3.8M (−23%).
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: 2020 16% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 11% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Jonathon Husby
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $26k → $182k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 33% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 40% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
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 AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC: 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 AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC?
- AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,813 to it, the largest being MOTOR AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($99,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $957,813 in grants to AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC?
- MOTOR AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing