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Trucking Cares Foundation

To improve the safety of the trucking industry and the safety, security, and sustainability of america's highways and communities we serve by supporting and promoting research, education, leadership development, and volunteerism and a broad range of charitable activities towards those ends.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$185kHealth$135kYouth Development$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kPhilanthropy$40kEmployment$35kInternational$31kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $185,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
NEXT GENERATION IN TRUCKING FOUNDATION CORPORATION$40,000
TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING$25,000
VOICES FOR AWARENESS FOUNDATION$25,000
SOUTH DALLAS DRIVING ACADEMY$25,000
ST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF FUND$20,000
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 (FY22–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%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

MN
NY
IA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 5 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$340k
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TA
    TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING
    5× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +260%
  • CA
    Congressional Award Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +125%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR AWARENESS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • VS
    VARIOUS STATE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAININGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -13%
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
Montana Trucking Association Foundation Inc
Education
2
Minnesota Trucking Association

The minnesota trucking association's mission is to advance a safe and succesful minnesota trucking industry through advocacy, education and focused initiatives.

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3
Trucking Cares Foundation

To improve the safety of the trucking industry and the safety, security, and sustainability of america's highways and communities we serve by supporting and promoting research, education, leadership development, and volunteerism and a…

Public Benefit
4
All Truckers Together Against Child Abuse Foundation
Human Services
5
Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Arizona Trucking Association Foundation

Operates exclusively for charitable, educational, research, environmental, and/or scientific purposes. promotes and advances highway safety and a safe trucking industry through research, educational activities, media programs about safety,…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Alabama Trucking Assn Foundation

To develop, fund and administer programs that advance the trucking industry's commitment to highway safety, workforce development, public image, scholarships & charitable causes.

Employment
8
Florida Trucking Association Inc

Promoting the interests, image, and safety of florida's trucking community

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9
California Transportation Foundation

At California Transportation Foundation (CTF) our mission is simple. We recognize the best and brightest in our industry with our Annual CTF Transportation Awards program. We remember those who have given all in service to the people of…

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10
American Traffic Safety Services Foundation Inc

The american traffic safety services foundation ("the foundation") exists to promote roadway safety through charitable giving and public awareness programs.

Education
11
West Virginia Trucking Association Inc

To promote the trucking industry in west virginia

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12
Trucking for a Cure

Non-profit organization working to support other organizations that work to overcome cancer.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Trucking Association Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Voices for Awareness 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

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Next Generation In Trucking Foundation Corporation: $40,000 · OtherNext Generation In Trucking Foundation …VARIOUS STATE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONS: $30,000 · OtherVARIOUS STATE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONSAMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC: $15,700 · OtherAMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INCFAIRFAX COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND SERVICES: $14,000 · OtherFAIRFAX COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS…THE KANSAS MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTMTA Foundation: $10,000 · OtherAssociated Industries of Arkansas Foundation: $10,000 · OtherIOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc: $22,000 · OtherSave The Children Federation IncUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,500 · OtherCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING: $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAININGHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC: $15,000 · OtherHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Const…TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $115,000 · EducationTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFF…MINNESOTA TRUCKING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMINNESOTA TRUCKING ASS…Congressional Award Foundation: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongressional Awa…PARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPARDEE MEM…TENNESSEE TRUCKING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE …VOICES FOR AWARENESS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitSouth Dallas Driving Academy: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$222,200Education$125,000Youth Development$100,000Philanthropy$60,000Public Benefit$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$45,000Health$35,000

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 budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $115,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCongressional Award Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetVOICES FOR AWARENESS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSouth Dallas Driving Academy: $45,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNext Generation In Trucking Foundation Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC: $15,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE TRUCKING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTMTA Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAssociated Industries of Arkansas Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $5,000 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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Trucking Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trucking Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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