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Safe Routes to School National

The Safe Routes to School National Partnerships mission is to advance safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of Americas children and to foster the creation of livable, sustainable communities.

$70k
Granted FY2023
8
Itemized grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Safe Routes to School National funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$60k100%
FY20219$148k89%
FY20208$100k100%
FY201912$150k100%
FY201810$125kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$283kCommunity Improvement$88kEnvironment$68kCivil Rights$40kHousing & Shelter$35kEmployment$33kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$13k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
NM
KS
AR
NC
HI
OK
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Imagine Black Futures$40,00013%
Verde Inc$32,50020%
Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc$12,50010%
Central Arkansas Library$12,5001n/a
Future City Inc$12,500114%
Salem Leadership Foundation$12,50012%
Environmental Health Coalition$12,50010%
Bike Share Pittsburgh Inc$12,50011%
The Community Builders Inc$12,50010%
Spark$12,50011%
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All grantees of Safe Routes to School National by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Imagine Black Futures$40,00013%
Verde Inc$32,50020%
Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc$12,50010%
Central Arkansas Library$12,5001n/a
Future City Inc$12,500114%
Salem Leadership Foundation$12,50012%
Environmental Health Coalition$12,50010%
Bike Share Pittsburgh Inc$12,50011%
The Community Builders Inc$12,50010%
Spark$12,50011%
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance$12,50011%
Community Partners$12,50010%
Community Choice$12,50010%
United Way of Merced County$12,50011%
Health by Design Inc$12,50013%
St Josephs Historic Foundation$12,5001n/a
Can Do Houston$12,500115%
Thrive Allen County Inc$12,50011%
Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation$12,50010%
Railyard Park Conservancy$12,50019%
Friends of McAllister Park$12,5001n/a
Shawano Pathways Organization for Kids Environment & Safety$12,5001n/a
Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation$12,50010%
Greenfield Walking Group$12,500145%
The New Covenant Church of God CDC$12,500142%
Young Men's Christian Assoc of Shawnee Ok$12,50011%
Taos Land Trust$12,50011%
Rev Birmingham Inc$12,50011%
Kahoomiki$12,50017%
Friends of the Fort Collins Bicycle Program Inc$12,50016%
The Crim Fitness Foundation Inc$12,50010%
The Elizabeth River Project$12,50011%
Eco Elp Inc$12,500138%
Living Streets Alliance$12,50013%
Opal$12,50011%
Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc$12,50010%
Capital Roots Inc$12,50010%
Bike Cleveland$12,50012%
Bayfront East Side Taskforce Inc$10,00012%
Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc$10,00010%
Bellefonte Historic Preservation Foundation$10,000187%
Schuylkill Connects$10,000110%
Safe Routes to School - Wellington Co$5,0001n/a
Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation$5,00011%
Bike Jeffco Inc$5,0001n/a
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc$5,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Safe Routes to School National supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImagine Black Futures: $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVerde Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCorporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFuture City Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetSalem Leadership Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBike Share Pittsburgh Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Community Builders Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpark: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Partners: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Choice: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Merced County: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHealth by Design Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCan Do Houston: $12,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetThrive Allen County Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSky Lakes Medical Center Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRailyard Park Conservancy: $12,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetYoungstown Neighborhood Development Corporation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreenfield Walking Group: $12,500 over 1y, 45% of budgetThe New Covenant Church of God CDC: $12,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Assoc of Shawnee Ok: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTaos Land Trust: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRev Birmingham Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKahoomiki: $12,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFriends of the Fort Collins Bicycle Program Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetThe Crim Fitness Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEco Elp Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetLiving Streets Alliance: $12,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOpal: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHuman Resource Development Council of District IX Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCapital Roots Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBike Cleveland: $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBayfront East Side Taskforce Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetScranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBellefonte Historic Preservation Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetSchuylkill Connects: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBoulder Parks and Recreation Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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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 40.

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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.

AARPDC26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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.

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About Safe Routes to School National

How much does Safe Routes to School National give?
Safe Routes to School National reported 8 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $69,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Safe Routes to School National fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (48%), Community Improvement (15%), Environment (12%).
Who are Safe Routes to School National's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Imagine Black Futures ($40k), Verde Inc ($33k), Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc ($13k).
Does Safe Routes to School National fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Safe Routes to School National?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AARP, Wells Fargo Foundation, American Heart Association Inc.
Where is Safe Routes to School National based?
Safe Routes to School National is based in VA.

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 46 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $59k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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