Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,500 to it, the largest being ACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What American Road and Transportation Builders Association does
Mission
The american road & transportation builders association (artba) brings together all facets of the transportation construction industry to responsibly advocate for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel. Artba also offers value-added programs and services providing its members with a competitive edge.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership- as a full service trade association, artba offers a variety of information, tools, and services to help its member firms and agencies operate more efficiently. Among these are:- cutting edge economics and research reports covering all angles of the transportation construction market- safety services, training ang products- top notch communication tools such as "transportation builder" magazine, "washington newsline", e-newsletters, websites, and membership directory.- customized professional development programs designed specifically for transportation design, construction and safety professionals
Advocacy and lobbying- artba is an aggressive and efficient advocate on behalf of the u.s. Transportation design and construction industry before the congress, white house, executive branch and federal agencies.
Meetings & conferences- artba offers abundant networking and business development opportunities at artba's national meetings and events. These meetings consist of the artba annual convention, public private partnership conference, the federal issues program and transportation construction coalition fly-in, and other various regional meetings.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8.3M to $11M (+37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
David Bauer
President & CEO & board secretary
Board chair
Jeff Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $31k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $775k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Florida Transportation Builders Association). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 66% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.5M on record.
- Department of Transportation$14.0M
- Department of Labor$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Artba Transportation and Development Foundation · exempt
- Artba Political Action Committee · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,500 to it, the largest being ACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $80,500 in grants to AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION?
- ACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing