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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$75,000
BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$75,000
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE$70,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$65,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GENESIS: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%GENESIS: $45k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/98
Grantees still filing
56/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $85,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGenesis Interfaith Community Organizing: $85,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $80,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWillowbrook Inclusion Network: $60,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Transitcenter Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Transitcenter Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 127 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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