Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $444,250 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Surface Transportation Policy Project does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
National programs: includes the initiative to educate and inform the debate on national surface transportation policy and to advance greater investment in the use of transit, walking, bicycling and rail, and to provide for greater collaboration with citizen stakeholders in the development of investment strategies, supports greater accountability and transparency in transportation policy and information, undertakes research on transportation's impact on areas such as health, environmental and natural resources, equity, the economy, energy, and land use.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
From the IRS filings of SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 74% · 2020 78% · 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. 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.
Government funding SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $194k on record.
- Department of the Interior$194k
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 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT: 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 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT?
- SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $444,250 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $444,250 in grants to SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 4 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