Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION
ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,623 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ($138,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $535k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Roadway Safety Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to reduce the frequency and severity of motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities through improvements to roadway systems and their environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Activities conducted for purpose of improving roadway safety data quality, development of a public service campaign, and promotion of road safety research and technology transfer.
$444,148 spent$534,602 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $444,148.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $832k (−25%).
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.
0% of ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Bruce Hamilton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $76k → $152k.
From the IRS filings of ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION’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
ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
100% 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 ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 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
ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Transportation$4.3M
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 ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Highway Users Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION: 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 ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,623 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ($138,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $227,623 in grants to ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $138,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROADWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2 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