Washington · Nonprofit
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,611,647 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,314,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Transportation Choices Coalition does
Mission
Transportation Choices Coalition brings people together to advocate for safe, sustainable, and equitable transportation across washington.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy - the policy program develops and advances local, regional and state policies to make it easier for residents to walk, bike and take transit safely, affordably and conveniently. The program also implements policies to make it more efficient to move people and goods.
$383,688 spent$108,983 earned by the program40% of program spendingEducation - the education program educates washington residents on the transportation options available to get around. This work includes workshops, trainings, meetings, events and other activities.
$296,325 spent31% of program spendingAdvocacy - the advocacy program works to increase funding and gain support for transit, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure through building of intersectional coalitions that bring together business, labor, social justice, environmental, health, and transportation advocates.
$191,943 spent20% of program spendingThe lobby program advances funding and policies by advocating to state and local elected officials and through initiatives to the public at the local, regional and state level.
$81,030 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $952,986.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $2.2M (+78%).
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 14% · 2018 18% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% · 2024 22% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kirk Hovenkotter
Executive director
Board chair
Emily Mannetti
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $491k → $624k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION’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
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 45% · 2019 33% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: 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 TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION?
- TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,611,647 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,314,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,611,647 in grants to TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,314,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION 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.
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 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing