· Public charity
Operation Lifesaver Inc
To educate the public on rail safety around highway-rail grade crossings and pedestrian safety around tracks and trains.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $741,003 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $765,102 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,099 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $620k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio Operation Lifesaver | $53,327 |
| Missouri Operation Lifesaver | $50,630 |
| Indiana Operation Lifesaver | $43,773 |
| Tennessee Operation Lifesaver | $42,959 |
| California Operation Lifesaver | $42,762 |
| South Carolina Operation Lifesaver | $42,100 |
| Washington Operation Lifesaver | $31,601 |
| Illinois Operation Lifesaver | $31,500 |
| New York Operation Lifesaver | $30,768 |
| Hampton Roads Transit | $28,963 |
| San Diego Metropolitan Transit System | $22,513 |
| Pennsylvania Operation Lifesaver | $22,193 |
| North Dakota Safety Council | $22,000 |
| Montana Operation Lifesaver | $21,500 |
| Connecticut Operation Lifesaver | $21,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- IHIndiana Highway-Safety Grade Crossing and Trespass8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +23% · 31% of their budget
- SCSoutheastern Chapter National Safety Council8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +133%
- MOMISSOURI OPERATION LIFESAVER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +44% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- WOWISCONSIN OPERATION LIFESAVER INCone grant, 2017 · $24k
- NONEVADA OPERATION LIFESAVER INCone grant, 2017 · $16k
- RTRegional Transit Authority - New Orleansone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Promoting highway-rail grade crossing safety and trespass prevention throughout the state of iowa
To educate and promote safety at railroad crossings
To educate the public on rail safety around highway-rail grade crossings and pedestrian safety around tracks and trains.
To educate about railroad operation and safety
Prevent officer line of duty deaths injuries
Safety training for firefighters.
The Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers (OARP), doing business as All Aboard Ohio, supports the innovative design and development of a robust transportation system that provides diverse transit options to all Ohioans. OARP believes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Operation Lifesaver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Operation Lifesaver. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 52 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 CALIFORNIA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Highway-Safety Grade Crossing and Trespass ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Chapter National Safety Council ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO OPERATION LIFESAVER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OPERATION LIFESAVER ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Texas Operation Lifesaver Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI OPERATING LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS OPERATION LIFESAVER ↗
- Who funds KANSAS OPERATION LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA OPERATION LIFESAVER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN OPERATION LIFESAVER ↗
- Who funds Oregon Operation Lifesaver Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO OPERATION LIFESAVER ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY OPERATION LIFESAVER 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Operation Lifesaver Inc 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.