Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,251,742 to it, the largest being TRANSITCENTER INC ($461,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $522k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $334k
What Miami Dade Transit Alliance Inc does
Mission
Transit Alliance is a non-profit organization advocating for walkable streets, bikeable neighborhoods and better public transit. Our campaigns combine data-driven research, community engagement, and policy advocacy to get Miami moving safer, faster and happier.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy for improved multi-modal mobility in Miami-Dade County including improvement and expansion of public transportation systems, creation of safer infrastructure for bicycles and pedestrians, and community engagement and education on major transportation issues and better mobility policy which includes the Better Bus Project, which is a comprehensive redesign of county bus network and integration of municipal trolley systems.
$255,365 spent$85,491 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $193k to $345k (+79%).
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: 2019 30% · 2020 0% · 2021 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Catherine dos Santos
Executive Director
Board chair
Lucas Hernandez
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $113k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE 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
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 51% · 2021 68% · 2022 35% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k 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
MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $274 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $274
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 MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC
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 Florida
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
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE 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 MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC?
- MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,251,742 to it, the largest being TRANSITCENTER INC ($461,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,251,742 in grants to MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC?
- TRANSITCENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $461,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI DADE TRANSIT ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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