· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of ALLIANCE FOR AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $75,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $194,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,166 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| FLORIDA REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $305k · revenue +86%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +33%
- TNTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND3× · 2017–2019 · $79k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CFCoalition for Safe and Secure Dataone grant, 2019 · $1.2M
- ACAutomotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Incone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- CTCommittee to Protect California Jobsone grant, 2018 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.…
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,…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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,…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Committee to Protect California Jobs ↗
- Who funds Resources for the Future Inc ↗
- Who funds American Action Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY ↗
- Who funds INTELLIGENT CAR COALITION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ENERGY POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT MAJORITY USA ↗
- Who funds MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA NEW AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.