Its Carolinas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471473895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 4045500884
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,609
- Expenses
- $149,191
- Assets
- $65,114
- Liabilities
- $135
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Horner (President)
- Jennifer Portanova (Past President)
- David Spencer (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Horner (President)
- Jennifer Portanova (Past President)
- David Spencer (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Intelligent Transportation Society Carolinas Chapter, ITS Carolinas, Inc. (hereinafter designated as "Chapter"), is organized and shall be administered and operated exclusively to receive, administer, and expend funds for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and specifically to promote and enhance public safety and community welfare by fostering research and development, and implementation of plans and programs to reduce motor vehicle deaths and injuries, improve mobility and to promote, encourage, and advance safer, more economical, energy efficient and environmentally sound surface transportation systems through research, development, and implementation of advanced technology. The Chapter's region initially consists of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, ITS Carolinas held an in-person meeting in Wilmington, North Carolina. The event included 12 educational sessions as well as networking events and information sharing. Some of the topics explored included recent municipal project updates, applications in AI, and shared experiences with grant funding.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.