Pennsylvania Independent Automobile Dealers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231693004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172389002
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $634,590
- Expenses
- $673,858
- Assets
- $146,414
- Liabilities
- $294,346
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS J BRANDIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT C STRAUB (President)
- DAN LIMONGELLI (President)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS J BRANDIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $77,007 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide automobile businesses and allied businesses guidance in maintaining ethical standards with each other and with the general public; to advocate and encourage the enactment of laws and ordiances for the benefit of the general public; to promote and advocate road safety regulations and enforcement; to advocate necessary public improvements and to oppose unecessary expenditure of public funds
What it reported doing in 2025
A member oriented program, promoting the auto industry with a basis of self-promoting assistance in referenece to state laws of the industry; and to advise members in the operations of their business.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.