Since 2013, TransitCenter has spent over $50 million to support transit advocacy – both our own and that of allied organizations.
Our 2025 grants list is available to review below:
Transportation for Massachusetts
A grant supporting roundtables of transit advocates, community leaders, and organized labor occurring in the 4th quarter of 2025 and 1st of 2026.
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center
A grant supporting coalition efforts in Colorado, a portion of this grant will be regranted to other members of the Alliance to Transform Transportation
San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association
A general operating grant supporting regional advocacy efforts in the Bay Area. A portion of this grant will be regranted to other organizations that have a stronger grassroots organizing orientation.
Climate and Community Institute
Grant to Climate and Community Institute to allow them to build a case for why transit is important to labor. CCI undertake relationship building with unions, do casemaking research, and provide policy guidance to union locals looking to join transit campaigns.
Rocky Mountain Institute
Grant to RMI to allow them to provide technical support to Clean RIDES Network state coalitions.
World Resources Institute
This Project will build a network of real estate developers, state and local officials, and other stakeholders interested in building TOD. WRI will map sites that could support TOD in high-priority metros and bring peer-learning resources to the network.
TransitMatters
A Boston-area nonprofit transit advocacy organization that promotes fast, frequent, reliable, equitable public transportation. It uses data-driven research, public engagement, and partnerships with decision-makers to push for improvements such as bus network redesign, regional rail electrification, fare integration, transit priority infrastructure, and service equity.
St Paul Transportation Management Organization dba Move Minnesota
A grant to support strategic planning and executive coaching.
San Francisco Transit Riders
General Operating
Brookings Institution
This project will build a network of real estate developers, state and local officials, and other stakholders interested in building TOD. Brookings will focus on establishing connections between the state and business members of the network. They will highlight the how states could provide more support for TOD through policy and direct fiscal support.