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COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS

COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$119k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$166k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Council of University Transportation Centers does

Mission

CUTC facilitates transportation research across higher education entities through twice yearly events and quarterly webinars.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. CUTC Student Awards Banquet - Recognizing students and professionals in the research field for their accomplishments

    $90,000 spent
    90% of program spending

  2. Honorariums - PhD & MS Award, New Faculty Award, P&P Award

    $1,500 spentof which $10,500 as grants
    2% of program spending

  3. Winter and Summer Meetings - Peer exchange events with all member Universities.

    $8,166 spent
    8% of program spending

  4. New Initiative Projects - small projects funded with 50% match to Universities to create and/or distribute research.

    $0 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,666.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($188k)2022 Revenue 93 ($93k) Expenses 75 ($69k) Net assets 114 ($215k)2023 Revenue 119 ($119k) Expenses 182 ($168k) Net assets 88 ($166k)
202120222023
Revenue (119)Expenses (182)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $215k to $166k (−23%).

$188k
$215k
$166k
202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

72% of COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’21
$24k
’22
−$49k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS’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.

Where its funders are

COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’19
’20
’21
Montana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS has grown faster than half of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−42% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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In Montana

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Nationally

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

85%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS?
COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,500 in grants to COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS?
AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 1 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