Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance
September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,295 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $585k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $654k
What September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance does
Mission
To preserve and perpetuate the memories of those impacted on September 11, 2001 by connecting NYC September 11 Memorial & Museum with the Flight 93 National Memorial and the Pentagon Memorial.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance was formed for the purpose of establishing a memorial trail that will link the planned and existing memorial sites.
$447,254 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,254.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $245k to $654k (+167%).
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: 2020 25% · 2021 14% · 2022 21% · 2023 43% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Jeffrey McCauley
Executive Director
Board chair
Matt Harris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $51k.
1 of 5 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 September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance’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
September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 58% · 2022 92% · 2023 98% — 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
96% of September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295 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.
Organizations like September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance: 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 September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance?
- September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,295 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $68,295 in grants to September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2024), 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