ITS Arizona
Legal name: Intelligent Transportation Society of Arizona Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860773988
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, United States
- Phone
- 9803390829
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,582
- Expenses
- $165,336
- Assets
- $78,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL WASHKOWIAK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL WASHKOWIAK (PRESIDENT)
- HUNTER VENNE (VICE PRESIDE)
- DEANNA HAASE (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The intelligent transportation society of arizona (its-az) is organized and shall be administered and operated exclusively to receive, administer, and expend funds for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes; to provide for information exchange among governments, the private sector and academia; to inform and educate the public; to encourage a strong its industry within arizona; to foster research and development; and to serve as a clearinghouse for its information; resulting in: improved safety and driver comfort; reduced congestion; more informed motorists and travelers; energy conservation; improved air quality; enhanced mobility; reduced environmental impact; promotion of economic development; and promotion of alternate transportation modes and ridesharing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsor an annual conference for transportation professionals, students, and professors at various colleges and universities. The purpose of the conference is to bring in speakers that allow the attendees to stay abreast of technology that is currently available or being developed that will improve ground traffic flow in the public transportation system. There are also sessions on recent applications of the technology and lessons learned. The primary purpose of this event is information dissemination. This is the only major event this organization sponsors each year. It does other events, but they're on a small scale.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $165K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.