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Transportation Education Fund Inc

Transportation education fund, inc. Promotes, researches, studies, tabulates and disseminates information to better the understanding and enhancement of the transportation system and the transportation industry.

$483k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$465k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$355,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$882k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Transportation Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving4$465k0%
FY20244$456k25%
FY20222$345k0%
FY20213$357k33%
FY20202$342k0%
FY20192$374k0%
FY20183$422k33%
FY20172$312kn/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.

Community Improvement$2.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc$2,693,400968%
American Road and Transportation Builders Association$105,00030%
The Road Information Program Inc$105,00091%
Coalition for Work Zone Safety$100,0002n/a
Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association Inc$70,00013%

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About Transportation Education Fund Inc

How much does Transportation Education Fund Inc give?
Transportation Education Fund Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $465,000, out of $483,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Transportation Education Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (98%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
Who are Transportation Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc ($2.7M), American Road and Transportation Builders Association ($105k), The Road Information Program Inc ($105k).
Does Transportation Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Transportation Education Fund Inc based?
Transportation Education Fund Inc is based in WI.

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 5 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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