· Public charity
Governors Highway Safety Association
To provide leadership and advocacy for the states and territories to improve traffic safety, influence national policy, enhance program manangement, and promote best practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $551,610 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $576,607 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,997 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
- $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION | $91,875 |
| WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM | $88,750 |
| MARYLAND MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION | $75,310 |
| WASHINGTON TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION | $56,250 |
| KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE | $28,750 |
| OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY | $27,544 |
| MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION | $25,000 |
| VERMONT CRIMINAL JUSTICE COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $19,980 |
| TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $16,326 |
| LOUISIANA HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMISSION | $15,000 |
| TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER | $14,950 |
| IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT | $14,375 |
| IDAHO WALK BIKE ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| THRIVE UMPQUA | $12,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES2× · 2020–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +3%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK5× · 2020–2025 · $250k
- WRWASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM2× · 2024–2025 · $158k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- GMGeneral Motors LLCone grant, 2022 · $210k
- FFFoundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibilityone grant, 2022 · $156k · revenue +9%
- HFHEALTH & FITNESS SYSTEMS LLCone grant, 2021 · $117k
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 research, educate, and promote highway safety.
Developing and promoting excellence among driver and traffic safety education professionals in the delivery of instruction to all drivers.
Increase public awareness of the problems associated with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The aaa foundation for traffic safety's mission is to save lives and reduce injuries through research into the causes of traffic crashes, and education about proven strategies for mitigating risks on the road.
Education of individuals about alcohol, drug, and tobacco dependencies.
mprove roadway safety and reduce death and injury from vehicle crashes. Educate and increase awareness of traffic safety in Hampton Roads.
Represents and lobbies on behalf of franchised car and truck dealers before the US Congress and executive branch on legislative and regulatory matters. Also represents dealers in certain interactions with car and truck manufacturers. NADA…
Increase roadway safety through collaboration, accountability, and robust communication.
Reduce the number of traffic crashes through community collaboration and education.
Madd believes in a world where everyone is safe to live, work, and play. we are a movement of caring individuals with a shared purpose to end the dangers of drunk and drugged driving, a health and safety issue that affects every community.…
To promote and enhance the highest ethical and professional standards in law enforcement at all levels throughout new jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility and the most unlike its peers is The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 44 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility ↗
- Who funds THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA DUI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police ↗
- Who funds IDAHO WALK BIKE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Law Enforcement Training Advisory Commission ↗
- Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
- Who funds Thrive Umpqua ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds TEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Investor Protection Trust · America's State Parks Foundation · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc · Association of State and Territorial Health Officials · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · National Association of State Procurement Officals Inc · National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc · Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc · American Bar Association · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation 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 Governors Highway Safety 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.
- Thrive Umpqua — 19% 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.