I-car
Legal name: Inter-industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363117579
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
- Phone
- (800) ICAR USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,722,947
- Expenses
- $83,353,546
- Assets
- $131,560,198
- Liabilities
- $25,967,598
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN VAN ALSTYNE (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- KYLE THOMPSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN VAN ALSTYNE (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,885,985 total reported compensation
- MARK MILLER (VP, TECHNICAL PRODUCTS): $576,506 total reported compensation
- TOM MAREK (VP,FINANCE AND OPERATIONS): $559,230 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the collision repair industry with the knowledge, skills, and resources required to perform complete, safe, and quality repairs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Communications: through website, e-newsletter, meetings and conferences, i-car provides a communication forum on proper collision repair for i-car members, other professionals in the collision repair industry and the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th 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: -4.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.6M reported
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.