Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131068400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 9195494800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,610,487
- Expenses
- $18,850,577
- Assets
- $48,031,284
- Liabilities
- $14,145,112
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL LONG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- COLLIN SHAW (PRESIDENT, MEMA OE)
- JULIE FREAM (PRESIDENT & CEO, MEMA ORIGINAL)
- PAUL MCCARTHY (PRESIDENT & CEO, MEMA AFTERMARKET)
- BILL FRYMOYER (VICE PRESIDENT, PUB. POLIC)
- MIKE A JACKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STRATEGY & RESEARCH)
Highest reported compensation
- BILL LONG (PRESIDENT & CEO): $858,856 total reported compensation
- PAUL MCCARTHY (PRESIDENT & CEO, MEMA AFTERMARKET): $566,387 total reported compensation
- ANN WILSON (SENIOR V.P., GOV. AFFAIRS): $542,116 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To foster the commercial interests of its members in the motor vehicle supplier industry.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule othe association promotes the business interests of its members by: 1. Coordinating constructive dialogue, cooperative research and strategic information exchange among the various automotive aftermarket, heavy duty, original equipment, and remanufacturing industry partipants, and the government entities that regulate them. 2. Promoting networking and information exchange among the membership through a wide range of conferences and exhibitions that focus on the major issues of importance to members, and through committees, councils, forums, product line groups, and peer groups. 3. Promoting public awareness of the importance of the automotive aftermarket, heavy duty, original equipment, and remanufacturing industries to the community and to the country with statistics on sales, employment, taxes, exports, etc. 4. Coordinating research on issues of interest to the members, developing benchmarking information, and conducting forums on specific issues. 5. Developing strategic alliances with other associations and societies to promote information exchange, the introduction of companies, the promotion of relevant research and the health of the industry. 6. Promoting increased awareness of the capabilities of fellow association members to enhance business to business relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% 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: 63
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 78.2%; rating input score 78; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.55; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $859K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $590K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 15 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.