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American Public Transportation Association

To serve and represent its members in making public transportation an effective path to economic opportunity, personal mobility and improving the quality of life through partnerships, communications, technology and advocacy.

$599k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$207k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$472kScience & Tech$377kPublic Benefit$310kCommunity Improvement$175kYouth Development$130kEnvironment$88kCivil Rights$40kHuman Services$32kHealth$25kOther$518k
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $582,993 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,074 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,081 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 $10k4 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $268k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUSINESS MEMBERS BOARD OF GOVERNORS$206,753
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$61,660
CONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS$25,000
MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE SJSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION$20,000
GREATER GREATER WASHINGTON$20,000
NASHVILLE MOVES ACTION FUND$15,000
ATX KIDS CLUB$10,000
DOWNTOWN ON THE GO$10,000
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION$10,000
BROKE SPOKE COMMUNITY BIKE SHOP INC$10,000
BIRMINGHAM JEFFERSON COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY$10,000
BALTIMORE TRANSIT CAMPAIGN INC$10,000
ST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION$10,000
PROVIDENCE STREETS COALITION$10,000
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FULL ACCESS & COORDINATED TRANSPORTATION INC: $8k → 11%DISABILITY NETWORKNORTHERN MICHIGAN: $9k → 10%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$744k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
42

Total granted

$1.4M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $377k · revenue +3%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +155% · 33% of their budget
  • CO
    CONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOBILITY FOR ALL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CM
    Connect Maricopa
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • WB
    WE BUILD ARIZONA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -81%

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

04Your field

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.

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Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
2
Commuting Solutions

We connect people to places in the Northwest metro region today and for the future.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Minnesota Transportation Alliance

To coordinate and educate diverse groups to effectively advocate for a safe, effective transportation system that works for all Minnesotans.

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4
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
5
Transitcenter Inc
Public Benefit
6
American Public Transportation Association

To serve and represent its members in making public transportation an effective path to economic opportunity, personal mobility and improving the quality of life through partnerships, communications, technology and advocacy.

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7
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc

The tri-state transportation campaign conducts advocacy and policy programs to reduce car dependency and promote a sustainable transportation system in new york, new jersey and connecticut metropolitan regions.

Environment
8
American Road and Transportation Builders Association

The american road & transportation builders association (artba) brings together all facets of the transportation construction industry to responsibly advocate for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe…

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9
Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund

Seamless Bay Area is primarily an advocate for legislative change at the local and state levels in California, but also conducts educational, research, and engagement activities.

Public Benefit
10
Center for Transportation & the Environment

To improve the health of our climate and communities by bringing people together to develop and commercialize clean, efficient, and sustainable transportation technologies.

Science & Tech
11
The Transportation Alliance Inc

To enhance the ability of member organizations to effectively serve the local transportation need of the public and to serve as the spokesperson for the local passenger transportation for-hire industry

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12
Wpb Mobility Coalition Inc

Reduce traffic impact in and around downtown to enable economic growth, save peoples precious time, and make everyday life easier. The organization works with employers and policy-makers to maximize capacity of our regions transportation…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Modern Transit and the most unlike its peers is Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,484

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 81 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOBILITY FOR ALL — $50,000 · OtherMOBILITY FOR ALLConnect Maricopa — $50,000 · OtherConnect MaricopaUNITED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE — $25,000 · Other+44 more — $490,250 · Other+44 moreAMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION — $346,753 · EducationAMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPOR…SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSIT…COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS — $20,500 · Education+3 more — $29,500 · Education+3 moreNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $377,170 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF…CONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS — $144,100 · Public BenefitCONFERENCE OF MI…BALTIMORE TRANSIT CAMPAIGN INC — $39,000 · Public BenefitBALTIMORE TRANSI…RAIL-VOLUTION — $30,000 · Public BenefitRAIL-VOLUTIONTRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC — $18,500 · Public BenefitTRANSPORTATION R…+8 more — $78,650 · Public Benefit+8 moreWE BUILD ARIZONA — $50,000 · Community ImprovementWE BUILD …Californians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure — $45,000 · Community ImprovementCaliforni…TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSPORT…VALLEY VISION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY VI…San Francisco Transit Riders — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSan Franc…WAKEUP WAKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWAKEUP WA…Sustain Charlotte Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSustain C…+2 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement+2 moreIntroducing Youth to American Infrastructure Inc — $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentSMART GROWTH AMERICA — $30,000 · EnvironmentBROKE SPOKE COMMUNITY BIKE SHOP INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrue — $9,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $9,000 · Environment
Other$615,250Education$471,753Science & Tech$377,170Public Benefit$310,250Community Improvement$175,000Youth Development$130,000Environment$88,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $377,170 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION — $346,753 over 9y, 33% of budgetCONFERENCE OF MINORITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS — $144,100 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetIntroducing Youth to American Infrastructure Inc — $130,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWE BUILD ARIZONA — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCalifornians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure — $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBALTIMORE TRANSIT CAMPAIGN INC — $39,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRAIL-VOLUTION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSMART GROWTH AMERICA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS — $20,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetGROW SMART RHODE ISLAND — $19,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC — $18,500 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE TRANSIT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFoundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain — $15,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCITIZENS FOR MODERN TRANSIT — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetReconnect Rochester Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVALLEY VISION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRANSIT — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetWAKEUP WAKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY REGIONAL TRANSIT ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHEALTH BY DESIGN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUtah Chamber — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN ON THE GO — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKEEP HILLSBOROUGH MOVING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBike Durham — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSustain Charlotte Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMOVABILITY INC — $9,830 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFarm and City — $9,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN — $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMountainTrue — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA TRANSIT ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $8,820 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFull Access & Coordinated Transportation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTARRANT TRANSIT ALLIANCE — $7,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetMISSOURI PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION — $6,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPittsburgh Community Reinvestment G — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO TRANSIT ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

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.

Transitcenter IncGlobal Philanthropy P…United States Energy …AARPThe Energy FoundationNetwork for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Transitcenter IncNY32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Transitcenter Inc · Global Philanthropy Partnership · United States Energy Foundation · AARP · The Energy Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 American Public Transportation Association 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Miami Dade Transit Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 81 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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