How much does American Public Transportation Association give?

American Public Transportation Association reported 30 itemized grants totaling $582,993, out of $599,074 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Public Transportation Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Science & Tech (20%), Education (19%).

Who are American Public Transportation Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Academy of Sciences ($377k), American Public Transportation Foundation ($347k), Conference of Minority Transportation Officials ($144k).

Does American Public Transportation Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Public Transportation Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Transitcenter Inc, Global Philanthropy Partnership, United States Energy Foundation.

Where is American Public Transportation Association based?

American Public Transportation Association is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 30
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $583k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $206,753
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 18
Total assets, FY2025: $45M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations American Public Transportation Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentHuman ServicesScience & TechOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$583k	63%
FY2024	8	$267k	13%
FY2023	5	$154k	20%
FY2022	10	$120k	50%
FY2021	17	$260k	59%
FY2020	18	$334k	61%
FY2019	16	$200k	81%
FY2018	12	$116k	75%

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$568kScience & Tech$432kEducation$407kCivil Rights$225kPublic Benefit$216kYouth Development$140kEnvironment$83kHuman Services$42kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Academy of Sciences	$377,170	5	0%
American Public Transportation Foundation	$346,753	9	33%
Conference of Minority Transportation Officials	$144,100	8	1%
Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure Inc	$130,000	4	66%
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$75,000	5	0%
Connect Maricopa	$50,000	1	n/a
Mobility for All	$50,000	1	n/a
We Build Arizona	$50,000	1	18%
Californians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure	$45,000	2	15%
Baltimore Transit Campaign Inc	$39,000	4	17%

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All grantees of American Public Transportation Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Academy of Sciences	$377,170	5	0%
American Public Transportation Foundation	$346,753	9	33%
Conference of Minority Transportation Officials	$144,100	8	1%
Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure Inc	$130,000	4	66%
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$75,000	5	0%
Connect Maricopa	$50,000	1	n/a
Mobility for All	$50,000	1	n/a
We Build Arizona	$50,000	1	18%
Californians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure	$45,000	2	15%
Baltimore Transit Campaign Inc	$39,000	4	17%
Transportation Choices Coalition	$30,000	3	1%
Smart Growth America	$30,000	2	0%
St Paul Transportation Management Organization	$30,000	3	1%
Rail-Volution	$30,000	2	1%
United for Infrastructure	$25,000	1	4%
Council of University Transportation Centers	$20,500	4	5%
Greater Greater Washington	$20,000	1	n/a
Oklahoma Transit Association	$20,000	2	n/a
Grow Smart Rhode Island	$19,750	2	1%
Transportation Riders United Inc	$18,500	2	8%
Washington State Transit	$15,000	1	2%
Capitol Hill Publishing Corp	$15,000	1	n/a
Coalition to Advance Atlanta Inc	$15,000	2	n/a
Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain	$15,000	2	4%
Transport for Nola Dba Ride New Orleans	$15,000	2	2%
Nashville Moves Action Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$15,000	1	0%
Indiana Society of Washington D C	$12,500	1	n/a
Citizens for Modern Transit	$12,500	2	1%
Northwest Valley Connnect	$10,000	1	n/a
Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance	$10,000	1	24%
Pittsburghers for Public Transit	$10,000	1	n/a
Reconnect Rochester Inc	$10,000	1	16%
Moving to the Future PAC	$10,000	1	n/a
Advocacy Associates	$10,000	1	n/a
Moving Central Ohio Forward	$10,000	1	n/a
Providence Streets Coalition	$10,000	1	n/a
Downtown on the Go	$10,000	1	3%
Motor City Freedom Riders	$10,000	1	n/a
Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority	$10,000	1	n/a
Keep Hillsborough Moving Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Bike Durham	$10,000	1	9%
Southwest Area Regional Transit District	$10,000	1	n/a
Friends of Transit	$10,000	1	10%
Lets Get Moving	$10,000	1	n/a
Citizens for Better Transit	$10,000	1	n/a
Valley Vision	$10,000	1	0%
Citizens for Better Transportation	$10,000	1	n/a
The Move Forward PAC	$10,000	1	n/a
Miami Dade Transit Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Rva Rapid Transit Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
San Francisco Transit Riders	$10,000	1	n/a
Utah Chamber	$10,000	1	0%
The Street Trust Community Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Keep Seattle Moving 2024	$10,000	1	n/a
Transit Alliance	$10,000	1	n/a
Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee	$10,000	1	6%
Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area	$10,000	1	n/a
North Carolina Public Transportation Association	$10,000	1	3%
Atx Kids Club	$10,000	1	2%
Partners in Transit Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Thurston for Better Transit	$10,000	1	n/a
Health by Design Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Sustain Charlotte Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Wakeup Wake County Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Movability Inc	$9,830	1	1%
Farm and City	$9,500	1	11%
MountainTrue	$9,000	1	1%
Disability Network Northern Michigan	$9,000	1	1%
California Transit Association	$9,000	1	0%
The Piedmont Environmental Council	$9,000	1	0%
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition Dba Move Santa Barbara County	$8,820	1	1%
Full Access & Coordinated Transportation	$8,000	1	0%
Tarrant Transit Alliance	$7,600	1	11%
Friends of Mountain Line	$7,400	1	n/a
Town of Great Barrington	$7,000	1	n/a
Missouri Public Transit Association	$6,500	1	3%
Riverside Transit Agency	$6,000	1	n/a
New Mexico Transit Association	$5,000	1	4%
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G	$5,000	1	1%

American Public Transportation Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.

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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.

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

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.

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About American Public Transportation Association

How much does American Public Transportation Association give?: American Public Transportation Association reported 30 itemized grants totaling $582,993, out of $599,074 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does American Public Transportation Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Science & Tech (20%), Education (19%).
Who are American Public Transportation Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Academy of Sciences ($377k), American Public Transportation Foundation ($347k), Conference of Minority Transportation Officials ($144k).
Does American Public Transportation Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Public Transportation Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Transitcenter Inc, Global Philanthropy Partnership, United States Energy Foundation.
Where is American Public Transportation Association based?: American Public Transportation Association is based in DC.