Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jun 2018.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
88 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
12 people listed on the 990; $116K paid to officers and key staff.
Tara Shepherd’s $116K as Secretary/Ex is at the 83rd percentile of top reported officer pay among 1043 $100K–1M public & societal benefit nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 1 named individual · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Shepherd | $116,458 | $113,163 | $114,370 | $113,542 | $108,720 | $109,173 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Hunterdon Area Rural Transit INC executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Manages traffic to solve transportation problems.
Questions for Hunterdon Area Rural Transit INC
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New jersey transit funds are used to provide transit information to all hunterdon county employers and other requestors, to work with employers to solicit interest among employees and clients to arrange for employers to locate transit centers on site to provide employees with transit information, and to promote and market transit…
New Jersey Department of Transportation
Safe routes to school program funds are used for programming to work with schools and communities to support implementation of safe routes to school programs with the goals of where it is safe, get kids walking or bicycling and where it is not safe, make it safe.
The north jersey transportation planning authority provides funds to provide travel demand management programming to reduce traffic congestion, increase mobility, and improve air quality in the region.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $353K | $332K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $9K | $8K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $583K | $560K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $47K | $32K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $536K | $527K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $509K | $448K | $61K | |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $10K | $9K | $1K | |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $53K | $47K | $6K | |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $38K | $33K | $5K | |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $16K | $14K | $2K | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $9K | $8K | $1K | |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $1K | $1K | $154 | |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $26K | $23K | $3K | |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $514 | $452 | $62 | |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $2K | $2K | $233 | |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $12K | $11K | $1K | |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $66K | $61K | $5K | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $743K | $657K | $86K | $0 |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Feb 26, 2026 | $734K | $743K | −$9K | $527K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS May 15, 2025 | $815K | $671K | $144K | $536K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS May 13, 2024 | $765K | $716K | $48K | $392K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS May 12, 2023 | $678K | $592K | $86K | $401K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS May 12, 2022 | $661K | $632K | $29K | $315K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Apr 8, 2021 | $736K | $668K | $68K | $286K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $734,300 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 9 of 9 board members independent, 3 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $734,300 across 6 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $742,858 across 12 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $559,587 assets, 12 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $527,498 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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