Texas · Nonprofit
TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION
TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Travel Matters Foundation does
Mission
40 in 40 is a grass roots social movement bringing sustainable and workable solutions to economic, educational, cultural and environmental issues to people, areas, and communities worldwide.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Croatia - 5,335 was utilized to fund an ocean cleanup project. 25,000 went to support a solar project. Mexico - 4,920 funded a whale shark tagging project.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4k to $30k (+666%).
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.
100% of TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $500.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 TRAVEL MATTERS 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
TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
80% 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 TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,675 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,675 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like TRAVEL MATTERS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRAVEL MATTERS 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 TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION?
- TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION?
- THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVEL MATTERS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 3 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