New York · Private foundation
Transitcenter Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 59
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $72M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Transitcenter Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $832k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $2.4M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.6M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $2.0M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riders Alliance Fund Inc | $858,750 | 4 | 16% |
| Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc | $676,250 | 6 | 16% |
| San Francisco Transit Riders | $515,000 | 6 | 47% |
| Active Transportation Alliance | $463,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Miami Dade Transit Alliance Inc | $461,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Pittsburghers for Public Transit | $448,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia | $405,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Transport for Nola Dba Ride New Orleans | $387,500 | 6 | 44% |
| Alliance for a Just Society | $290,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Resource Media | $241,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 97 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Transitcenter Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Global Philanthropy Partnership · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Energy Foundation · The Seed Fund Grants Inc · American Public Transportation Association · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Movement Strategy Center · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About Transitcenter Inc
- How much does Transitcenter Inc give?
- Transitcenter Inc reported 48 grants totaling $2,572,220 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 59 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Transitcenter Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Environment (19%), Civil Rights (17%).
- Who are Transitcenter Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Riders Alliance Fund Inc ($859k), Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc ($676k), San Francisco Transit Riders ($515k).
- Does Transitcenter Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Transitcenter Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Transitcenter Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Global Philanthropy Partnership, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Transitcenter Inc based?
- Transitcenter Inc is based in NY.
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