Roadway Safety Foundation

Analysis

Roadway Safety Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1948, 78 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Roadway Safety Foundation reported income of $419k and spending of $417k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $899k to $419k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Roadway Safety Foundation sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lake Winola Fire Company No 1 ($419k), Elma Fire Company ($419k) and Acts Response Team Inc ($419k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $552k against liabilities of $170k, net assets of $381k.