Mileage Based User Fee Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273335234
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028579742
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $212,939
- Expenses
- $295,185
- Assets
- $19,217
- Liabilities
- $46,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adrian Moore (Vice President)
- Carlos Braceras (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Peter J Basso (Chairman)
- Anthony Buckley (Vice Chairman)
- Adrian Moore (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
Research and education on mileage-based user fees as a transportation infrastructure financing alternative to the excise tax on motor vehicle fuel.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted webinars and "Radio MBUFA" video meetings featuring guests and panels presenting on road usage charge topics to MBUFA members and other interested individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.43; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $240K reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.