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American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATORS (aamva) represents the state, provincial, and territorial officials in the united states and canada who administer and enforce motor vehicle laws.

$382k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$311kCrime & Legal$222kHealth$176kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kPublic Benefit$32kScience & Tech$18kEnvironment$6k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $188,937 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $382,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $193,480 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$7,332
Median grant
23
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES$21,059
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$13,023
INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES$11,861
WISCONSIN DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES$11,157
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES$9,551
NEW JERSEY MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION$9,484
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES$8,500
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$8,206
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES$8,000
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE$7,868
Individual grant recipient$7,500
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES$7,332
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION$6,604
KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE$6,576
MAINE BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES$6,488
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%DELAWARE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $12k → 11%CLINIC WITH A HEART INC: $12k → 13%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 14%CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $8k → 12%SOUTH CAROLINA DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $11k → 16%ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION: $10k → 17%FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES: $7k → 19%IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $11k → 10%IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $9k → 17%MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $9k → 16%ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: $12k → 18%KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: $8k → 14%MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: $9k → 10%WISCONSIN DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $8k → 10%GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES: $12k → 11%COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $10k → 7%INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $12k → 16%LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY: $6k → 19%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 19%MAINE BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $6k → 12%ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $8k → 11%MINNESOTA DRIVER AND VEHICLE SERVICES: $13k → 14%CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $7k → 12%SOUTH CAROLINA DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $9k → 16%ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION: $6k → 17%IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $9k → 10%IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $9k → 17%MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $8k → 16%KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: $7k → 14%WISCONSIN DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $8k → 10%GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES: $9k → 11%COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $6k → 7%INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $12k → 16%ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $7k → 11%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 14%CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $6k → 12%SOUTH CAROLINA DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $9k → 16%IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $8k → 10%KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: $6k → 14%WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $6k → 10%GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES: $8k → 11%INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $9k → 16%MINNESOTA DRIVER AND VEHICLE SERVICES: $7k → 14%GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES: $8k → 11%INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES: $8k → 16%GEORGIA DEPT OF DRIVER SERVICES: $8k → 11%INDIANA BMV: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$641k · 29 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
14

Total granted

$641k
$113k

Still filing today

0%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • ID
    IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $46k
  • GD
    GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $45k
  • IB
    INDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES
    4× · 2019–2025 · $41k

Funded once

  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • CW
    CLINIC WITH A HEART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +71%
  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

2 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION — $45,919 · OtherIOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICES — $44,931 · OtherGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF DRIVER SERVICESINDIANA BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES — $41,353 · OtherCONNECTICUT DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES — $40,695 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES — $28,300 · OtherNEW JERSEY MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION — $27,511 · OtherWISCONSIN DEPTARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES — $27,229 · Other+41 more — $521,205 · Other+41 morePhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $13,023 · HealthCLINIC WITH A HEART INC — $12,460 · Health
Other$777,143Health$25,483

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLINIC WITH A HEART INC — $12,460 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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 Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds CLINIC WITH A HEART INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators 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.

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2021222324
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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