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Intermodal Association of North America at a glance

· Public charity

Intermodal Association of North America

To promote the intermodal transportation industry.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$235k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9M
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
$105,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$235,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN INSTITUTE$190,000
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$180,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$150,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - LONG BEACH$105,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$90,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - MARITIME ACADEMY$75,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - A&T STATE$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 24%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

WI
NY
CA
CO
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$2.5M
$982k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+126%

Still filing today

33%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2018–2024 · $545k · revenue +34%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +8%
  • CM
    CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $222k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $187k · revenue +126%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +65%
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
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
2
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
3
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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4
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
5
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
6
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
7
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
8
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
11
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
12
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Denver. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $630,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $285,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $274,000 · OtherGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $222,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $150,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINCSULB: $135,000 · OtherCSULBSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $100,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $90,000 · Other+2 more: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $545,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $186,999 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $180,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND F…Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $123,000 · EducationGeorgia Southern University Foundation IncCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEAR…SUNY MARITIME FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Human Services
Other$2,286,000Education$1,549,999Human Services$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $545,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $186,999 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $123,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNY MARITIME FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Kpmg US Foundation IncTulsa Community Found…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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
    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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