· Public charity
OpenRoad Foundation
To invest in education, public policy, and community efforts to further support peer-to-peer car sharing and other innovative technology solutions, and benefit the communities served by them.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $130,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,500 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–50k5 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tholos Foundation | $50,000 |
| NCSL Fdtn State Legislatures | $30,500 |
| State Legislative Leaders Fdn | $15,000 |
| House Victory Fund | $15,000 |
| Natl Council of Insur Legis | $10,000 |
| Natl Conference of State Leg | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- COConference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +82%
- NFNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES4× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +158%
- ALAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL3× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- RGREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -32%
- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
- BIBLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SOone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -5%
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 provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.
To promote pro-growth, progressive policy at the state level.
CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through…
The State Leadership mission is to equip states to deliver inspiring reforms. Our focus is not on elections or legislation but on the harder work that follows: turning policy into reality through disciplined sustained execution. That means…
Multi-sector, multi-state voice of business advocating on 5 key policies pillars.
To encourage study and research in state budgeting, to exchange information and promote cooperation toward more effective budget preparation and management, and to attain greater efficiency and economy of programs and services though…
National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Oklahoma policy advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all oklahomans through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
The mission of the jeffersonian project is to educate the public and government policy makers by providing nonpartisan research on current events and other issues of concern to the public and government policy makers.
To advance and support the state government affairs profession by fostering community among peers and elected officials, building knowledge, and promoting diverse perspectives in a nonpartisan environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures and the most unlike its peers is Conference of Western Attorneys General Ag Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 Conference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance ↗
- Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
- Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
- Who funds STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS ↗
- Who funds REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Insurance Legislators Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SO ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds National Council of Insurance Legislators ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK 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: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · American Property Casualty Insurance Association · Ctia - the Wireless Association · The Personal Care Products Council Inc · Entertainment Software Association · Consumer Healthcare Products Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts
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 OpenRoad Foundation 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.
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.
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