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· 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.

$577k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$2.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MHealth$351kCrime & Legal$136kEducation$25kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $551,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $576,607 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,997 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
$19,980
Median grant
14
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA GOVERNORS OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY: $12k → 11%TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $16k → 7%CITY OF ROCHESTER MINNESOTA POLICE DEPARTMENT: $13k → 9%MINNESOTA OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY: $35k → 14%FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%PENNSYLVANIA DUI ASSOCIATION: $35k → 12%TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $15k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY: $13k → 15%LYFT: $40k → 10%HAWAII DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION: $25k → 15%NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 17%SHERRY MATTHEWS GROUP: $25k → 10%EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES: $12k → 13%OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICE: $17k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1.5M → 14%GENERAL MOTORS: $210k → 21%MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $15k → 10%BIKABOUT LLC: $13k → 10%THRIVE UMPQUA: $13k → 17%CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 11%PROMESA CAPITAL LLC: $11k → 12%TEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC: $12k → 8%GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY - GA: $22k → 13%COLORADO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION: $23k → 12%OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY: $28k → 15%KANAWHA COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE: $20k → 18%LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING ADVISORY COMMISSION: $20k → 11%ALLIANCE AGAINST INTOXICATED MOTORISTS: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM: $89k → 6%FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING ALCOHOL RESPONSIBILITY: $156k → 7%LOUISIANA HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMISSION: $40k → 19%MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $45k → 6%KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $29k → 10%KENTUCKY HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICE: $13k → 14%CITY OF ROCHESTER MINNESOTA POLICE DEPARTMENT: $12k → 9%FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 13%SHERRY MATTHEWS GROUP: $10k → 10%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1.2M → 14%HEALTH & FITNESS SYSTEMS LLC: $117k → 21%MISSOURI DIRECTOR OF REVENUE CREDIT STATE ROAD FUND: $10k → 10%BIKABOUT LLC: $13k → 10%COLORADO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION: $23k → 12%WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM: $69k → 6%LOUISIANA HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMISSION: $15k → 19%MARYLAND MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION: $75k → 6%FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%MARYLAND MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION: $35k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 17 repeat orgs$986k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
21

Total granted

$3.8M
$884k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+21%

Still filing today

29%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHealthEducationPublic BenefitScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +3%
  • WR
    WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $158k · revenue +36%
  • TF
    THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • GM
    General Motors LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $210k
  • FF
    Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
    one grant, 2022 · $156k · revenue +9%
  • HF
    HEALTH & FITNESS SYSTEMS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $117k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc

To research, educate, and promote highway safety.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association

Developing and promoting excellence among driver and traffic safety education professionals in the delivery of instruction to all drivers.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Radd

Increase public awareness of the problems associated with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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4
Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety

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.

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5
National Council On Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Orange County Calif

Education of individuals about alcohol, drug, and tobacco dependencies.

Health
6
Drive Safe Hampton Roads Inc

mprove roadway safety and reduce death and injury from vehicle crashes. Educate and increase awareness of traffic safety in Hampton Roads.

Education
7
National Automobile Dealers Association

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…

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8
Midwest Center for Traffic Safety Nfp

Increase roadway safety through collaboration, accountability, and robust communication.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Drive Smart Colorado

Reduce the number of traffic crashes through community collaboration and education.

Community Improvement
10
Mothers Against Drunk Driving

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.…

Crime & Legal
11
New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police

To promote and enhance the highest ethical and professional standards in law enforcement at all levels throughout new jersey.

—
12
Distress Bandanna Teen Driver Safety Initiative Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,739,609 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $250,210 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKGeneral Motors LLC: $210,000 · OtherGeneral Motors LLCFoundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility: $156,406 · OtherFoundation for Advancing Alcohol Respon…MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $134,365 · OtherMISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION…HEALTH & FITNESS SYSTEMS LLC: $117,289 · OtherHEALTH & FITNESS SYSTEMS LLCWASHINGTON TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION: $100,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSIONDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $60,500 · Other+25 more: $629,050 · Other+25 moreWASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM: $157,500 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthEDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES: $12,269 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA DUI ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Crime & LegalTREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $29,950 · Crime & LegalALLIANCE AGAINST INTOXICATED MOTORISTS: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION: $44,978 · EducationIDAHO WALK BIKE ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · EducationLaw Enforcement Training Advisory Commission: $19,923 · Public BenefitThrive Umpqua: $12,500 · Public BenefitKentucky Association of Chiefs of Police: $28,750 · Community Improvement
Science & Tech$2,739,609Other$1,657,820Health$194,769Crime & Legal$74,950Education$69,978Public Benefit$32,423Community Improvement$28,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,739,609 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM: $157,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFoundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility: $156,406 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION: $44,978 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA DUI ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $29,950 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKentucky Association of Chiefs of Police: $28,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO WALK BIKE ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLaw Enforcement Training Advisory Commission: $19,923 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThrive Umpqua: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of Erie County: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES: $12,269 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC: $11,733 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALLIANCE AGAINST INTOXICATED MOTORISTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO WALK BIKE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Law Enforcement Training Advisory Commission ↗
  • Who funds Thrive Umpqua ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds TEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

Investor Protection T…America's State Parks…Council of State and …Association of State …National Fish and Wil…Recreational Boating …Feed the Children IncNational Association …National Assembly of …Association of Public…American Bar Associat…Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…
Investor Protection TrustDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Governors Highway Safety Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Governors Highway Safety Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Thrive Umpqua: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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