Ontracknorthamerica Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260840647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2155643004
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,923
- Expenses
- $95,114
- Assets
- $3,928
- Liabilities
- $161,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Sussman (CEO and Chairman of the Board)
People named in this filing
- Michael Sussman (CEO and Chairman of the Board)
- Daniel Elliott (Member of the Board)
- Eugene Cipriani (Member of the Board)
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 specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to facilitate collaborative dialogue between stakeholders participating in, or directly affected by, the North American transportation system, with a concentration on railway systems. These stakeholders will include, but not be limited to, passenger and freight rail operators, rail-related businesses, employees, labor unions, trade associations, academia, local, state and federal governmental policy making entities and interested members of the general public. Its main purpose is to encourage the responsible growth and utilization of railways, a mode of transportation which makes efficient use of our natural resources with a relative minimum of environmental impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
We invested the entire year in gathering our 18 years of case studies and written content into a new website and a new platform for large-scale dialogue and collaboration. We also built a volunteer team of 25 staff, including data scientists, social media, writers, editors, and rail industry professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 41; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.