Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Operation Lifesaver Inc
To educate the public on rail safety around highway-rail grade crossings and pedestrian safety around tracks and trains.
- $765k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $741k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $53,327
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Operation Lifesaver Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $741k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $495k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $631k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $620k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $556k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $405k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $252k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $473k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Public Safety & Disaster$2.9MPublic Benefit$965kHuman Services$233kArts & Culture$50kEducation$35kEnvironment$10k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
ID
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ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
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CT
CA
CO
NE
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AZ
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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Operation Lifesaver Inc | $302,943 | 8 | 15% |
| New York Operation Lifesaver | $284,518 | 5 | n/a |
| Indiana Highway-Safety Grade Crossing and Trespass | $280,077 | 8 | 31% |
| Southeastern Chapter National Safety Council | $272,242 | 8 | 2% |
| Minnesota Operation Lifesaver Inc | $267,809 | 8 | 68% |
| North Carolina Operation Lifesaver Inc | $261,696 | 8 | 43% |
| Missouri Operation Lifesaver Inc | $233,045 | 8 | 41% |
| Ohio Operation Lifesaver | $179,548 | 8 | 40% |
| Washington Operation Lifesaver | $169,303 | 7 | 40% |
| Tennessee Operation Lifesaver Inc | $157,608 | 7 | 40% |
Show all 50 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Operation Lifesaver Inc | $302,943 | 8 | 15% |
| New York Operation Lifesaver | $284,518 | 5 | n/a |
| Indiana Highway-Safety Grade Crossing and Trespass | $280,077 | 8 | 31% |
| Southeastern Chapter National Safety Council | $272,242 | 8 | 2% |
| Minnesota Operation Lifesaver Inc | $267,809 | 8 | 68% |
| North Carolina Operation Lifesaver Inc | $261,696 | 8 | 43% |
| Missouri Operation Lifesaver Inc | $233,045 | 8 | 41% |
| Ohio Operation Lifesaver | $179,548 | 8 | 40% |
| Washington Operation Lifesaver | $169,303 | 7 | 40% |
| Tennessee Operation Lifesaver Inc | $157,608 | 7 | 40% |
| North Dakota Safety Council | $146,004 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Operation Lifesaver Inc | $129,638 | 7 | 18% |
| Operation Lifesaver of Pennsylvania Inc | $124,527 | 6 | n/a |
| New Jersey Operation Lifesaver Inc | $99,381 | 6 | 73% |
| Georgia Operation Lifesaver Inc | $87,728 | 4 | 13% |
| Mississippi Operating Lifesaver Inc | $83,369 | 8 | 24% |
| Alabama Operation Lifesaver Inc | $64,244 | 5 | 13% |
| Hampton Roads Transit | $63,963 | 4 | n/a |
| Nebraska Operation Lifesaver Inc | $60,455 | 2 | 49% |
| Florida Dot | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois Operation Lifesaver | $53,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Long Island Railroad | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas Operation Lifesaver Inc | $49,937 | 3 | 26% |
| Louisiana Operation Lifesaver Incorporated | $49,333 | 3 | 14% |
| Metro North Railroad | $47,625 | 3 | n/a |
| Arizona Operation Lifesaver Inc | $44,527 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan Operation Lifesaver | $39,867 | 3 | 16% |
| Metro Transit Minneapolis | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Charlotte | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Brightline Trains Florida LLC | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dallas Area Rapid Transit | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oregon Operation Lifesaver Inc | $29,119 | 2 | n/a |
| Idaho Operation Lifesaver | $28,406 | 2 | n/a |
| Montana Operation Lifesaver Incorporated | $27,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Kentucky Operation Lifesaver Inc | $26,652 | 2 | 24% |
| Septa | $24,842 | 2 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Operation Lifesaver Inc | $24,338 | 1 | n/a |
| San Diego Metropolitan Transit System | $22,513 | 1 | n/a |
| Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Metro | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| SCRRA Metrolink | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Nevada Operation Lifesaver Inc | $15,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas City Streetcar Authority | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| MBTA Recruitment and Retention Fund | $14,609 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkansas Operation Lifesaver Inc | $12,100 | 1 | 19% |
| Association of American Railroads | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Transit Auth | $8,063 | 1 | n/a |
| Maryland Operation Lifesaver | $7,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Operation Lifesaver Inc | $6,394 | 1 | 5% |
| Colorado Operation Lifesaver Inc | $5,752 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Operation Lifesaver Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.
About Operation Lifesaver Inc
- How much does Operation Lifesaver Inc give?
- Operation Lifesaver Inc reported 31 itemized grants totaling $741,003, out of $765,102 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Operation Lifesaver Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (69%), Public Benefit (23%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Operation Lifesaver Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Operation Lifesaver Inc ($303k), New York Operation Lifesaver ($285k), Indiana Highway-Safety Grade Crossing and Trespass ($280k).
- Does Operation Lifesaver Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Operation Lifesaver Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Operation Lifesaver Inc based?
- Operation Lifesaver Inc is based in DC.
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