Arizona · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF TRANSIT
FRIENDS OF TRANSIT (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Friends of Transit does
Mission
Educate the public about the benefits of a well-designed and accessible mass transit system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promote mass transit in cities through quarterly newsletters and other publications
$101,253 spent82% of program spendingPromote mass transit by hosting conferences, seminars and luncheons.
$22,500 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,753.
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 2022 to 2023, from $136k to $52k (−62%).
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 13% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 19% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FRIENDS OF TRANSIT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rachelle Giles
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Haines
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF TRANSIT’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
FRIENDS OF TRANSIT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF TRANSIT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF TRANSIT
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF TRANSIT: 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 FRIENDS OF TRANSIT?
- FRIENDS OF TRANSIT (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF TRANSIT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF TRANSIT.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TRANSIT?
- AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION 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 FRIENDS OF TRANSIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 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