WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC

2025 · Form 990 · revenue $1.4M · expenses $1.2M · assets $5.5M

Also known as

COUNCIL INC

EIN

16-1572964

Address

610 S DECATUR ST, WATKINS GLEN, NY 14891-1613

Website

WWW.RACINGARCHIVES.ORG

NTEE code

A540

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

December 1999 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

THE INTERNATIONAL MOTOR RACING RESEARCH CENTER COLLECTS, SHARES AND PRESERVES THE HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS. SPANNING CONTINENTS, ERAS AND RACE SERIES, THE CENTER'S COLLECTION EMBODIES THE SPEED, DRAMA AND CAMARADERIE OF AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL MOTOR RACING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE CENTER WELCOMES SERIOUS RESEARCHERS AND THE CASUAL FANS ALIKE TO SHARE STORIES OF RACE DRIVERS, RACE SERIES, AND RACE CARS CAPTURED ON OUR SHELVES AND WALLS, AND BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH A REGULAR CALENDAR OF PUBLIC LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS. THE CENTER'S COLLECTION DOCUMENTS THE HISTORY OF RACING IN THE MORE THAN 4000 BOOKS OR 250 DIFFERENT MOTORSPORTS MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS TITLES; CLUB AND SANCTIONING BODY RECORDS; RACE RESULTS, PROGRAMS AND POSTERS; PAPERS OF MOTORSPORTS JOURNALISTS AND SCHOLARS; CORRESPONDENCE OF RACE ORGANIZERS; AND STILL AND MOVING IMAGES HOUSED ONSITE AND IN OUR EXPANDING OFFSITE COLLECTIONS STORAGE FACILITIES. ITS KNOWLEDGEABLE RESEARCH AND ARCHIVES STAFF ASSISTS HUNDRE

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

5 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

35 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Funders of this organization

10 grantors reported grants to this organization, $149,536 in all, tax years 2011 to 2024. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Federal grants and contracts

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State business registration

• WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL, INC. NY, DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, Active, formed 1999-08-18

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.