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National Road Safety Foundation Inc

The foundation is dedicated to reducing crashes, death and disability on our nation's roads by promoting safe driving habits.

$317k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$958kYouth Development$402kCivil Rights$135kPhilanthropy$60kHealth$47kEducation$34k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $297,682, the rows itemized in this filing. The $317,145 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,463 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
$14,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION$166,177
IMPACT TEEN DRIVERS FUND$65,000
WE SAVE LIVES$30,000
YOUTHCAST MEDIA GROUP INC$14,500
BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC$10,000
CATCH YOU LATER FOUNDATION$6,140
AMERICAN DRIVER & TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$5,865
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIMEONE FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 11%TRAVELERS MARKETING LLC: $15k → 8%ADTSEA: $6k → 14%FREDERICK A SIMEONE MD FOUNDATION INC: $29k → 22%IMPACT TEEN DRIVERS FUND: $65k → 12%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $34k → 22%GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $166k → 14%DETROIT AUTO DEALERS ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDAITON: $7k → 8%IHSCDEA: $33k → 8%BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC: $10k → 8%CATCH YOU LATER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NIKHIL BADLANI FOUNDATION: $750 → 16%FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA: $17k → 6%WE SAVE LIVES: $75k → 7%SADD INC: $190k → 8%AMERICAN DRIVER & TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%IMPACT TEEN DRIVERS: $6k → 12%GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $161k → 14%DETROIT AUTO DEALERS ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDAITON: $7k → 8%BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE NJ: $5k → 8%CATCH YOU LATER FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA: $17k → 6%WE SAVE LIVES: $60k → 7%SADD INC: $50k → 8%AMERICAN DRIVER & TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE NJ: $3k → 8%FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA: $17k → 6%WE SAVE LIVES: $60k → 7%SADD INC: $45k → 8%AMERICAN DRIVER & TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $127k → 14%FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA: $9k → 6%WE SAVE LIVES: $30k → 7%SADD INC: $35k → 8%GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $79k → 14%FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA: $8k → 6%YOUTHCAST MEDIA GROUP INC: $15k → 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

IL
MI
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Public Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GH
    GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $684k · revenue +114%
  • SI
    SADD INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $320k · revenue +28%
  • IT
    Impact Teen Drivers Fund
    2× · 2022–2025 · $71k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIMONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +63%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue +28%
  • IH
    ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue 0% · 38% of their budget
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
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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2
Distress Bandanna Teen Driver Safety Initiative Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
3
The Dori Slosberg Foundation Inc

1) educate teen drivers about the importance of traffic and road safety 2) promote the usage of safe driving habits with a focus on teen driver seatbelt compliance and curtailing distracted and impaired driving 3) support and advance teen…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
National Foundation for Teen Safe Driving Inc

Primary Exempt Purpose National Foundation for Teen Safe Driving is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization dedicated to reducing the number of deaths and injuries resulting from automobile crashes by promoting safe driving and…

Crime & Legal
5
Highway Hero Honoree Scholarship
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6
Christopher S Seguinot Memorial Scholarship Fund

Prevention of Careless Drunk Driving

Education
7
Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc

To research, educate, and promote highway safety.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
International Road Educational Foundation
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9
Youth Safety Council of Vermont Inc

Traveled to multiple high schools and guide them through a simulation of driving while texting. benefits high school students by making them understand through thier actions that they are unable to drive a motor vehicle without hitting…

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10
Motorsport Safety Foundation Corp
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11
The Mark Donohue Foundation Inc
Youth Development
12
Florida Trucking Association Inc

Promoting the interests, image, and safety of florida's trucking community

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sadd Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Frederick a Simeone Md Foundation Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $683,684 · Public Safety & DisasterGOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATIONImpact Teen Drivers Fund: $71,000 · Public Safety & DisasterImpact Teen Drivers Fund+2 more: $34,332 · Public Safety & DisasterSADD INC: $320,000 · OtherSADD INCILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE: $33,050 · OtherILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL & COLL…BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC: $17,500 · OtherCATCH YOU LATER FOUNDATION: $16,054 · OtherTRAVELERS MARKETING LLC: $15,000 · OtherWE SAVE LIVES: $225,000 · Civil RightsWE SAVE LIVESFAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA INC: $68,050 · Youth DevelopmentDetroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $60,064 · PhilanthropyTexas A&M Foundation: $33,625 · Education+1 more: $750 · EducationTHE FREDERICK A SIMEONE MD FOUNDATION INC: $29,346 · Arts & CultureYOUTHCAST MEDIA GROUP INC: $14,500 · Health
Public Safety & Disaster$789,016Other$401,604Civil Rights$225,000Youth Development$82,050Philanthropy$60,064Education$34,375Arts & Culture$29,346Health$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOVERNORS HIGHWAY SAFETY ASSOCIATION: $683,684 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSADD INC: $320,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWE SAVE LIVES: $225,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetImpact Teen Drivers Fund: $71,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA INC: $68,050 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSIMONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $60,064 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $33,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE: $33,050 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE FREDERICK A SIMEONE MD FOUNDATION INC: $29,346 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN DRIVER AND TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24,332 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHCAST MEDIA GROUP INC: $14,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDetroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFlagman Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNIKHIL BADLANI FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Road Safety Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Road Safety Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to National Road Safety Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to National Road Safety Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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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