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National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc

Nacto's mission is to build cities as places for people, with safe, sustainable, accessible, and equitable transportation choices that support a strong economy and vibrant quality of life.

$516k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $500k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’20
10
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2022.

Community Improvement$430kPublic Benefit$250kPhilanthropy$189kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kReligion$40kRecreation & Sports$29kArts & Culture$25k
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $500,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $516,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,000 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.
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISTRICT BRIDGES (COLUMBIA HEIGHTS DAY INITIATIVE)$50,000
BIKEMORE INC$50,000
NORTH OF MARKETTENDERLOIN COMMUNITY BENEFIT CORPORATION$50,000
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS FINANCE DEPARTMENT$50,000
CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE$50,000
CITY OF MADISON$50,000
CITY OF FORT COLLINS$50,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS DBA LOS ANGELES WALKS$50,000
THE ROSEWOOD INITIATIVE$50,000
LAKE CITY COLLECTIVE$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA ATTN KYLE ALLEN MDO ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES MUNICIPAL: $25k → 22%NORTH OF MARKETTENDERLOIN COMMUNITY BENEFIT CORPORATION: $50k → 10%CITY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 14%ROCKAWAY WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC CO JEANNE DUPONT RISE CENTER: $25k → 13%ROCKFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $189k → 17%CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS: $15k → 16%DISTRICT BRIDGES (COLUMBIA HEIGHTS DAY INITIATIVE): $50k → 14%CITY OF DETROIT - PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT COLEMAN A YOUNG MUNICIPAL CENTER: $25k → 21%CITY OF MADISON: $50k → 10%CITY OF PORTLAND OMF - GRANTS OFFICE: $25k → 12%CITY OF DURHAM: $25k → 11%GEORGIA STAND-UP: $25k → 13%CITY OF FORT COLLINS: $50k → 11%CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE: $50k → 12%CASA CHIRILAGUA: $25k → 9%BIKEMORE INC: $50k → 19%BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15k → 22%COMMUNITY PARTNERS DBA LOS ANGELES WALKS: $50k → 14%THE ROSEWOOD INITIATIVE: $50k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $15k → 13%CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE DE: $25k → 12%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

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Association of City Transportation Officials Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

Environment
2
Neighborhood Bike Works

Neighborhood bike works provides equitable access to bicycling and bike repair through education, recreation, leadership and career building opportunites.

Youth Development
3
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
4
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
5
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
6
San Francisco Transit Riders

San Francisco Transit Riders is the city's rider-based grassroots advocate forworld-class transit. Together with our members we work for an excellent,affordable, and growing public transit system because it is essential to thecharacter and…

Community Improvement
7
East Bay Bicycle Coalition Dba Bike East Bay

Bike East Bay mobilizes by bike to build thriving communities that are joyful, safe, and inclusive.

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8
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
11
Southern California Streets Initiative

California Streets Initiative is a non-profit that practices solutions journalism at its five news websites listed above to educate inform and empower its readers.

Arts & Culture
12
Park Pride Inc

Park pride believes in the power of parks, and we work to help neighborhood groups create a network of greenspaces that contribute to the overall health and well-being of atlanta.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is District Bridges; the most unlike its peers is Casa Chirilagua. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 23 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARD: $90,000 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARDCITY OF DENVER COLORADO: $75,000 · OtherCITY OF DENVER COLORADOCITY OF MADISON PARKS DIVISION: $50,000 · OtherCITY OF MADISON PARKS DIVISIONCITY OF FORT COLLINS: $50,000 · OtherCITY OF FORT COLLINSCITY OF LONG BEACH: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF LONG BEACHPORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE: $25,000 · OtherPORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUEGEORGIA STAND-UP: $25,000 · OtherGEORGIA STAND-UPCITY OF DURHAM: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF DURHAMCITY OF DETROIT: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF DETROITCITY OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF PHILADELPHIA+3 more: $43,500 · Other+3 moreThe Rosewood Initiative: $50,000 · Community ImprovementThe Rosewood Initiativ…North of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNorth of MarketTenderl…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSLAKE CITY COLLECTIVE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE CITY COLLECTIVEROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $188,591 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHR…DISTRICT BRIDGES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBIKEMORE INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCASA CHIRILAGUA: $25,000 · ReligionPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $15,000 · ReligionROCKAWAY WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Environment
Other$458,500Community Improvement$200,000Philanthropy$188,591Arts & Culture$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Religion$40,000Environment$25,000

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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $188,591 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rosewood Initiative: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISTRICT BRIDGES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLAKE CITY COLLECTIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBIKEMORE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCASA CHIRILAGUA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROCKAWAY WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $13,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

AARPNational Recreation a…Urban Sustainability …Cities for Financial …The Recycling Partner…National League of Ci…Center for Technology…Peopleforbikes Founda…Natural Resources Def…National Fish and Wil…Firehouse Subs Public…Vanguard Charitable E…
AARPDC25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AARP · National Recreation and Park Association · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · National League of Cities Institute Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Peopleforbikes Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Rosewood Initiative: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–90%
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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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