Tanaitra Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
113642909
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bowie, MD, USA
Phone
3014307280
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,163,941
Expenses
$4,007,957
Assets
$12,822,197
Liabilities
$1,227,733

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEBRA HAMLIN PRESIDENT (UNTIL 11/25, PAST PRESIDENT)
  • RUSS DEVENS VICE PRESIDENT (UNTIL 11/25, PRESIDENT)
  • GARY MACCAUSLAND SECRETARY (UNTIL 11/25, VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KEITH JARMAN (PAST PRESIDENT UNTIL 11/25)
  • RICHARD GUST (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • RICHARD GUST (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $342,900 total reported compensation
  • KEVIN ROHLWING (CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER): $233,882 total reported compensation
  • SANDRA MARTINEZ (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $191,056 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The tire industry association (tia) is an international non-profit association representing all segments of the tire industry, including companies that manufacture, repair, recycle, sell, service or use new or retreaded tires, and also those suppliers or individuals who furnish equipment, material or services to the industry. Tia is the leading advocate as well as instructor in technical training of tire service technicians. The mission of tia is to promote tire safety through training and education, to act as the principal advocate in government affairs and to enhance the image and professionalism of the industry so that our member businesses may be more successful.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tia offers a complete curriculum of training programs that include the step-by-step procedures for tire service technicians in the automotive, commercial, earthmover, farm and industrial tire markets. The automotive tire service (ats) program covers the service and safety guidelines for passenger and light truck tires. The commercial tire service (cts) program addresses the safety guidelines, procedures and osha regulations for servicing truck and bus tires. The earthmover tire service (ets) program covers the service procedures and safety guidelines for tires in off-the-road construction and mining applications. Farm tire service (fts) provides service procedures and safety guidelines for agricultural tires and wheels while the industrial tire service (its) program does the same for forklifts and small material handling vehicles with pneumatic or solid rubber tires. The ats, cts, ets, fts and its programs are available via tia's online university and designed for new hires or experienced employees in need of documented training. Ats, cts and ets have more advanced certified versions that incorporate industry recommended practices into the curriculum, require a higher level of skills demonstration and include a proctored final examination for members that want the highest level of training and recognition for their technicians. In 2025, tia released the spanish translation of the basic cts program in video/workbook format and thru the online university.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 71% 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

- 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: 66
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 75%; rating input score 75; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.2; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $343K · 27 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $879K reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • 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 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.