Truckers Service Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431729529
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Southlake, TX, USA
Phone
2142057495
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$231,351
Expenses
$250,486
Assets
$38,069
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DRU BRIDGES (PRESIDENT)
  • BILL WEBB (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DRU BRIDGES (PRESIDENT): $1,500 total reported compensation
  • CHAD THURM (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $1,500 total reported compensation
  • JOHN PIPER (DIRECTOR): $1,500 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Tsa is a non-profit association dedicted to improving the profitability of owner operators and motor carriers and providing edcuational assistance to members and their dependents.

What it reported doing in 2025

The coalition for independent truckers is an alliance of independent truckers, service providers, motor carriers, and independent associations and affiliated organizations committed to the very singular mission of protecting and enhancing the independent contractor capacity model that is so vital to the american entrepreneurs driving trucks, the trucking industry, and the economy of the united states.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 8
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 8.5%; rating input score 9
  • Program expense ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 8
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 22.8%; rating input score 23; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 8.5% of revenue deployed · 7.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 8 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $140K reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 9/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.