Indiana · Nonprofit
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($900,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $448k
What North American Council for Freight Efficiency Inc does
Mission
Drives the development and adoption of efficiency-enhancing, environmentally beneficial, and cost-effective technologies, services, and methodologies in the north american freight industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
A) five major reports were published. A thought leadership report on intermodal /drayage trucking, a confidence report on natural gas as a truck fuel, a report on the doe super truck 2 program titled supertruck2: empowering future trucks, and two reports on the run on less - electric depot results. B) scoped and gained approval for run on less - messy middle, a major effort to be delivered in 2025 on the technologies to decarbonize long-haul trucking. C) completed the 2024 fleet fuel study on technology adoption rates for freight efficiency solutions. D) completed a strategy study on the future of the organization called nacfe next looking forward 10 years.
$1,171,953 spent$61,881 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,171,953.
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 $1.3M to $614k (−53%).
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: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Rob Reich
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $55k.
From the IRS filings of NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY 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
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 76% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC is better cushioned than half of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY 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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC?
- NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($900,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,945,000 in grants to NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR FREIGHT EFFICIENCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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