Maryland · Nonprofit
SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION
SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,500 to it, the largest being THE AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST ($214,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 23 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 23 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rotary Internationallocalportfolio match
- United Way of Frederick County Incshared funderslocal
- Governors Highway Safety Associationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2024 32% · 2025 55% · 2026 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $15k.
1 of 6 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 SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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
100% of SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rotary Internationallocalportfolio matchMD · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Frederick County Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you
- Governors Highway Safety Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Transportation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peopleforbikes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conor Lynch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Purpose Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morrissette Family Foundation Inc (Fka Arthur E & Clara M Morrissette Fdn)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officialsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crescent Cities Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Praxis Foundation (The)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tourism Council of Frederick County Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SAFE RIDE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION?
- SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,500 to it, the largest being THE AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST ($214,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $271,500 in grants to SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION?
- THE AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $214,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2020–2026), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing