Electric Vehicle Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510172118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Cardiff, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9376814120
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $385,603
- Expenses
- $292,222
- Assets
- $640,631
- Liabilities
- $115,507
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Terri Kirsch (President)
- Kate Kruk (Vice President)
- John Higham (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Terri Kirsch (President)
- Kate Kruk (Vice President)
- John Higham (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Electric Vehicle Association is North America's largest and leading nonprofit that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles by supporting its chapters and thousands of members as they educate their communities about the benefits of driving electric.
What it reported doing in 2025
EVA chapters focused on public EV education by organizing ride-and-drive events and/or collaborating with community groups hosting festivals, STEM activities, parades, and celebrations of, for example, Earth Day. EVA chapters sponsored 63 of 150 Drive Electric Earth month events held across the country in April. EVA was a national partner organizing the events along with Plug In America. EVA chapters hosted 15 test drive events in seven states in April and September/October, at which visitors experienced their first drive/s behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. The events met and/or exceeded our funding partner's requirement of at least 50 test drives at each event and/or attendance of 1,000 or more people at each event. EVA provided operational support for 48 volunteer-led chapters in 32 states and nearly 1,300 individual members; support and services include accounts payable/receivable, event insurance, leader training, EV education materials, coordination with funding partners for grants and contracts to fund EVA events, and provision of business systems for accounting, payments, communications, and marketing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.4% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $233K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.