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· Public charity

Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety

The AAA FOUNDATION FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY's mission is to save lives and reduce injuries through research into the causes of traffic crashes, and education about proven strategies for mitigating risks on the road.

$40k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Science & Tech$79kEducation$20k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL$10,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$8,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: $8k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL: $10k → 19%NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: $8k → 14%TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION BOARD: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 7 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $32,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESINSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS INC: $20,000 · Science & TechINSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS INCASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY INC: $10,000 · Science & TechASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY INCAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC: $7,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION BOARD INC: $10,000 · EducationTRANSPORTATION PROFESS…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY …
Science & Tech$69,000Education$20,000Other$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION BOARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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