American Road and Transportation Builder Assoc Transport Development Foundation

Overview

Mission

The organization was created and shall be operated to provide funding for transportation development, related research, education and information that will be available to the public. These activities include but are not limited to the following:1. Operation of the national work zone safety information clearing house. The clearing house provides work zone safety information for use by professional practitioners in government, private organizations, and the general public. Areas of information include highway safety research results, innovative technologies, best practices, laws and regulations, public awareness, highway construction work site management, and similar topics.2. Training programs for people employed in transportation development.3. Recognition programs that educate the public and industry on programs and activities that promote safety, enviromental stewardship and community good works.4. Scholarship programs.5. Development of museums and exhibits.

Operating model

Revenue model

Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

• Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 89
• Transparency & Controls: 61
• Accountability: 82
• Sustainability: 48
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $703K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $104K reported
• Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
• Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
• Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.