Washington · Nonprofit
PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST
PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,568 to it, the largest being ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC ($330,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $333k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Pipeline Safety Trust does
Mission
The Pipeline Safety Trust promotes pipeline safety through education and advocacy, increased access to information, and partnerships with residents, safety advocates, government, and industry, resulting in safer communities and a healthier environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Pipeline Safety Trust advances its mission by enhancing public access to information and fostering partnerships among residents, safety advocates, government entities, and industry stakeholders. The trust actively contributes to the regulatory rulemaking process, offering detailed comments and producing briefing papers and guides on key pipeline safety issues. Additionally, the trust organizes an annual national pipeline safety conference and serves as a reliable, independent source of information for the public, media, and local governments. Our staff participate in various state and federal pipeline safety advisory committees, regularly testify before the u.s. Congress, and frequently present at public, industry, and government meetings and conferences.
$1,459,931 spent$74,022 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,459,931.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $5.3M (+32%).
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 18% · 2020 44% · 2021 4% · 2022 25% · 2023 73% · 2024 70% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17 → $150k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST’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
PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record.
- Department of Transportation$5.3M
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 PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST: 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 PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST?
- PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,568 to it, the largest being ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC ($330,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $332,568 in grants to PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST?
- ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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