Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363863465
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 5865316654
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Science and Technology N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-4,509
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $2,169
- Liabilities
- $1,152
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Emily Hall (President)
- David Schottky (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jacob Lang (Treasurer)
- Emily Hall (President)
- Jill Kramer (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
Transport Chicago is an annual conference dedicated to improving transportation in the Chicago region and beyond. Conceived initially as a student-led forum, today, Transport Chicago brings together seasoned experts and professionals of all ages for a one-day fun, engaging, and semi-formal conference setting. Every year, our goal is to ignite the conversation. Transport Chicago provides a platform for exchanging ideas and knowledge and building the relationships necessary to solve complex transportation problems
What it reported doing in 2025
Organizing a day-long conference forum for over 300 transportation professionals in regional Chicago
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -100%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -87.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.