NonprofitsCovesa

Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Covesa

SAN RAMON, CA

Total revenue

$1.8M

Total expenses

$1.4M

Net assets

$347K

Grants received

EIN

263457544

Tax year

2024

Mission

Covesa is an open, collaborative and impactful technology alliance; accelerating the full potential of connected vehicles.

Programs

2 programs

Covesa continued its semi-annual all member meetings in april and october of 2024. These events resulted in roughly 80 organizations and an average of 275 people in attendance at each. Both business-level and technical presentations were made from roughly 70 speakers. While the event was not executed until january 2025, covesa also prepared for a significant showcase and reception event at the ces 2025. This involved contacting roughly 120 organizations for participatioin and sponsorship. Roughly 85 organizations agreed to participate and/or sponsor the event.

Covesa continued to actively align with other standards development and collaborative organizations including w3c, autosar, soaffe, jaspar, and eclipse sdv. The primary goal of this collaboration was to push adoption of the vss open standard into other automotive organizations and consortia. Through this collaboration, the benefits of a publicly available vss were represented to roughly 1000 automotive industry particpants, multiple government-funded technology projects, and standards-setting organizations in the us, japan, and europe.

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants
Program service revenue$1.8M
Investment income$3K
Other revenue
Total revenue$1.8M

Expenses

Grants paid
Salaries & benefits
Fundraising
Other expenses$1.4M
Total expenses$1.4M
Total assets$731K
Net assets$347K

People

12 listed

NameRoleCompensation

GERALD SPREITZ

VP/BOARD MEMBER

Board

8 hrs/wk

DAN NICHOLSON

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

MATT JONES

PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER

Board

8 hrs/wk

GRAHAM SMETHURST

CHAIRMAN/BOARD MEMBER

Board

8 hrs/wk

THOMAS BLOOR

SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER

Board

8 hrs/wk

JOHN SERGAKIS

TREASURER/BOARD MEMBER

Board

8 hrs/wk

HISAO MUNAKATA

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

CHRISTOPH LUDEWIG

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

FLORIAN BAUMANN

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

MONA LEVEACHER

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

GERHARD GROSSBERGER

BOARD MEMBER

Board

4 hrs/wk

STEVE CRUMB

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Board

20 hrs/wk

Independent contractors

GLOBAL INVENTURES INC

MANAGEMENT SERVICES

$457K

PAUL BOYES LLC

TECHNICAL SERVICES

$299K

MICHAEL NUNNERY

MARKETING SERVICES

$167K

Details

EIN263457544
NTEE codeS41
Subsection06
Ruling date2009-11
Formed2008
Employees0
Volunteers250
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