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Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc

To represent the common interests of its members and provide a forum to enable them to advance public policies that meet consumer and societal needs for cleaner, safer, and smarter personal transportation that helps transform the u.s.

$194k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MScience & Tech$833kEnvironment$650kHealth$309kEmployment$243kHuman Services$100kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $194,166 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $119,166 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.
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$35,000
FLORIDA REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$30,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Action Network: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 13 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
30

Total granted

$2.1M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

77%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’24’25
HealthScience & TechCivil RightsPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $305k · revenue +86%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +33%
  • Resources for the Future Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CF
    Coalition for Safe and Secure Data
    one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
  • AC
    Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • CT
    Committee to Protect California Jobs
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc

To represent the common interests of its members and provide a forum to enable them to advance public policies that meet consumer and societal needs for cleaner, safer, and smarter personal transportation that helps transform the u.s.…

Community Improvement
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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6
American Council of Engineering Companies

The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.

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7
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is Energy Policy Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Coalition for Safe and Secure Data: $1,236,703 · OtherCoalition for Safe and Secure DataRepublican Governors Association: $450,000 · OtherRepublican Governors AssociationSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $305,000 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATIONCommittee to Protect California Jobs: $200,000 · OtherCommittee to Protect California Jobs+29 more: $821,400 · Other+29 moreAutomotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc: $1,000,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAutomotive Coalition…CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH: $675,000 · Science & TechCENTER FOR AUTO…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $50,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEM…+1 more: $5,250 · Science & TechAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200,000 · HealthTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $78,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 · HealthSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · HealthResources for the Future Inc: $125,000 · EnvironmentONE NATION: $100,000 · Public BenefitNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Action Network Inc: $100,000 · Human Services
Other$3,013,103Public Safety & Disaster$1,000,000Science & Tech$730,250Health$326,000Environment$125,000Public Benefit$110,000Human Services$100,000

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 budgetAutomotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH: $675,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $305,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINTELLIGENT CAR COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetENERGY POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAJORITY FORWARD: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA NEW AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAssociation for Safe International Road Travel Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSAE INTERNATIONAL: $5,250 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pharmaceutical Resear…American Property Cas…American Petroleum In…Edison Electric Insti…American Hotel & Lodg…American Fuel and Pet…American Health Care …Nuclear Energy Instit…Motion Picture Associ…The Concord FundBiotechnology Innovat…The Business Roundtab…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Property Casualty Insurance Association · American Petroleum Institute · Edison Electric Institute Inc · American Hotel & Lodging Association · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · American Health Care Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc · The Concord Fund · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · The Business Roundtable Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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