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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 FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Community Improvement$3.8MEnvironment$2.1MCivil Rights$1.9MPublic Benefit$711kPhilanthropy$530kRecreation & Sports$454kHuman Services$396kEducation$257kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $501k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
$40,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIDERS ALLIANCE INC$210,000
RESOURCE MEDIA$200,000
GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP$200,000
RIDERS ALLIANCE INC$145,000
URBAN INSTITUTE$122,720
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY$100,000
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE$93,500
PITTSBURGHERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION$92,000
EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE$90,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$90,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$90,000
BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$75,000
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$75,000
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE$70,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$65,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GENESIS: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%GENESIS: $45k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%GENESIS: $35k → 10%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $8k → 14%CHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
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IL
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 55 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
57

Total granted

$9.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

  • RA
    RIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $859k · revenue +47%
  • TT
    TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $676k · revenue +1%
  • SF
    San Francisco Transit Riders
    6× · 2019–2024 · $515k · revenue +67% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +56%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY-NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2021 · $85k
  • BC
    BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Street Collective

To champion transportation options that are accessible, safe, and enjoyable for all.

Community Improvement
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

Environment
6
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
9
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
10
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
11
Nextenergy Center

To enable the commercialization of energy technologies that positively contribute to economic competitiveness, energy security, and the environment.

Environment
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Nurture Nature Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Developmental Disabilities …Immigrant Worker SupportSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/99
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,466

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 127 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/98
Grantees still filing
57/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - RIDERS ALLIANCE — $480,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - RIDERS ALLIANC…ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE — $463,500 · OtherACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCEALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY - NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIO — $194,000 · OtherFORUM FOR THE FUTURE US INC — $185,164 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS - MOVE LA — $180,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS - INVESTING IN PLACE — $165,000 · OtherGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP — $230,000 · OtherBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 · OtherThomas Merton Center Inc — $190,000 · OtherLIVABLE STREETS TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE OF BOSTON INC — $186,000 · OtherLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $170,000 · Other+55 more — $1,908,938 · Other+55 moreRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC — $858,750 · Civil RightsRIDERS ALLIANCE F…MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC — $461,000 · Civil RightsMIAMI DADE TRANSI…REINVENT ALBANY — $150,000 · Civil RightsREINVENT ALBANYCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $120,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO JOBS WITH…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $60,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $44,050 · Civil RightsSan Francisco Transit Riders — $515,000 · Community ImprovementSan Francisco Tr…ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $290,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A J…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNE…Genesis Interfaith Community Organizing — $85,000 · Community ImprovementMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) — $80,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $65,000 · Community ImprovementWillowbrook Inclusion Network — $60,000 · Community Improvement+13 more — $339,100 · Community Improvement+13 moreTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC — $676,250 · EnvironmentTRI-STATE TRANSP…RESOURCE MEDIA — $241,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCE MEDIAEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE — $117,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN COLLAB…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $99,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENV…VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE — $85,000 · EnvironmentVOICES FOR A SUS…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $60,000 · EnvironmentSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC — $60,000 · Environment+12 more — $188,710 · Environment+12 moreTRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS — $387,500 · Human ServicesGENESIS — $130,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $80,000 · Human Services+3 more — $26,000 · Human ServicesPittsburghers for Public Transit — $448,000 · Public BenefitLINK HOUSTON — $51,800 · Public BenefitSeamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area — $45,000 · Public BenefitTRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC — $40,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $8,000 · Public BenefitBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $405,000 · Recreation & SportsBike Durham — $36,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,507,602Civil Rights$1,693,800Community Improvement$1,634,100Environment$1,592,960Human Services$623,500Public Benefit$592,800Recreation & Sports$441,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC — $858,750 over 4y, 16% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC — $676,250 over 6y, 16% of budgetSan Francisco Transit Riders — $515,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE — $463,500 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetMIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC — $461,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetPittsburghers for Public Transit — $448,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $405,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetTRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS — $387,500 over 6y, 44% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $290,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA — $241,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP — $230,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Merton Center Inc — $190,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetLIVABLE STREETS TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE OF BOSTON INC — $186,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFORUM FOR THE FUTURE US INC — $185,164 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $170,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREINVENT ALBANY — $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $122,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $120,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE — $117,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $113,750 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network — $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACCE Institute — $101,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $99,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENO TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $89,544 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGenesis Interfaith Community Organizing — $85,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE — $85,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) — $80,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWillowbrook Inclusion Network — $60,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetLINK HOUSTON — $51,800 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOPAL — $51,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTransformca dba Transform — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION — $47,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSeamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area — $45,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRVA RAPID TRANSIT INC — $41,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetMake the Road New York — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United States Energy …Global Philanthropy P…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Energy FoundationThe Seed Fund Grants …American Public Trans…Natural Resources Def…Movement Strategy Cen…Surdna Foundation IncThe Robert Wood Johns…The Summit Charitable…The Ford Foundation
United States Energy FoundationCA65.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Transitcenter 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Miami Dade Transit Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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