American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530172317
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Arlington, VA, United States
- Phone
- 703.522.4200
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Government and Public Administration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,486,645
- Expenses
- $64,949,363
- Assets
- $93,332,755
- Liabilities
- $15,506,410
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IAN GROSSMAN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- IAN GROSSMAN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $445,680 total reported compensation
- PHILIPPE GUIOT (EXECUTIVE ADVISOR): $387,579 total reported compensation
- WENDY SIBLEY (VP FINANCE & CFO): $315,891 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AAMVA develops model programs, systems, and services for motor vehicle administration, law enforcement, and identity management.
What it reported doing in 2024
It services: aamva provides technology that jurisdictions, commercial firms, and private organizations rely on to support their daily customer transactions. Whether it's an inquiry or verification service, aamva serves as the information clearinghouse to maintain seamless data exchange on various platforms. An estimated 2.652 billion it transactions were processed in fy2025 with an overall system uptime of 99.99% across all solutions.membership: support by aamva's members, volunteers, working groups, and committees is what enables the organization to provide valuable experience and expertise to the development of numerous policies, best practices, guidelines, and more. In fy2025, aamva members included 69 jurisdictions and 267 associate members. The organization also had 325 member volunteers and several committees and working groups. These resources added to the robust library on suspended drivers, off-road vehicles, automated delivery vehicles, foreign driver's licenses, managing data privacy and external access, and third-party agent administration.conference, workshops, and meetings: aamva hosts various events that serve as platforms for sharing and collaboration so members and stakeholders can remain connected, build relationships, and gain knowledge on important industry matters. During fy2025, aamva offered 116 online education and engagement opportunities to its community members. The annual workshop and law institute was held in salt lake city, ut and the annual international conference drew in 1,114 attendees to phoenix, az. The award winning podcast, aamvacast, features conversations with thought leaders in the aamva community. Aamvacast surpassed over 60,000 downloads and released over 280 episodes by the end of fy2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 80.6%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $446K · 38 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.6M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 41 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 36 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.