Georgia · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT
CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,773 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($239,276). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $549k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Center for Transportation & the Environment does
Mission
To improve the health of our climate and communities by bringing people together to develop and commercialize clean, efficient, and sustainable transportation technologies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Develop, demonstrate and deploy clean, sustainable transportation technologies in support of fleets in the medium- and heavy-duty markets.
$9,809,700 spent$2,664,372 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,809,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $6.9M (−43%).
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: 2020 75% · 2021 81% · 2022 64% · 2023 87% · 2024 85% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Eric Sonnichsen
Executive chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $190k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT’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
CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 78 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 78 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record.
- Department of Transportation$11.7M
- Department of Energy$4.6M
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 CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT: 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 CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT?
- CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,773 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($239,276). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $548,773 in grants to CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT?
- WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $239,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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