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AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC

AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,905 to it, the largest being NiSource Charitable Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$570k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$28k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve49.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($278k) Expenses 100 ($166k) Net assets 100 ($459k)2018 Revenue 90 ($249k) Expenses 109 ($181k) Net assets 115 ($526k)2019 Revenue 136 ($376k) Expenses 124 ($205k) Net assets 152 ($698k)2020 Revenue 125 ($346k) Expenses 144 ($239k) Net assets 175 ($804k)2021 Revenue 140 ($387k) Expenses 145 ($240k) Net assets 207 ($952k)2022 Revenue 197 ($546k) Expenses 262 ($434k) Net assets 232 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 171 ($473k) Expenses 181 ($300k) Net assets 270 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 205 ($570k) Expenses 226 ($374k) Net assets 312 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (205)Expenses (226)Net assets (312)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$112k
17
$67k
18
$171k
19
$107k
20
$147k
21
$112k
22
$174k
23
$196k
24
49
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $864 → $10k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $207k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Traffic Safety Services Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’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 TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC.

36%
largest funder
89%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 78% · 2023 95%diversifying over time.

“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 TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

OH
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

21
22
23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 23%Fundraising 12%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • American Traffic Safety Services Association Inc · exempt
  • American Traffic Safety Services PAC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: 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 TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,905 to it, the largest being NiSource Charitable Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,905 in grants to AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
NiSource Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN TRAFFIC SAFETY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing