Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,419 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What American Transportation Research Institute does
Mission
To conduct research in the field of transportation, with an emphasis on the trucking industry's essential role in a safe, efficient and viable transportation system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization performed work on various government sponsored, transportation related research contracts.
$1,924,630 spentof which $2,500 as grants$1,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe organization performed work on various board-approved and industry-funded research and these costs are associated with disseminating the research findings to the general public.
$6,230 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,930,860.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $3.0M (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 58% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 45% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Derek J Leathers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $2.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Trucking Associations Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Transportation$4.3M
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 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- American Trucking Associations Inc · exempt
- Trucking Cares Foundation · exempt
- Ata Services Inc and Subsidiary · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,419 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $59,419 in grants to AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.
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 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing