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Bike the US for Ms Inc

Bike the us for ms organizes regional and cross-country bicycle trips to raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis.

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$144kPhilanthropy$22kHuman Services$9k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,310 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,310 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$8,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$259k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Swedish Foundation$27,500
University of Minnesota Foundation$15,000
Meat Fight Inc$10,000
Barrow Neurological Foundation$8,500
MS I'mpossible$7,500
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$6,000
CoxHealth Foundation$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Barrow Neurological Foundation: $9k → 11%University of Minnesota Foundation: $15k → 11%CoxHealth Foundation: $6k → 15%Swedish Foundation: $20k → 9%Multiple Sclerosis Alliance of Virginia: $11k → 8%Fairview Health Services: $13k → 11%MS I'mpossible: $8k → 9%Swedish Foundation: $28k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $68k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$68k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant made to Bike the UK for MS to support MS projects based in the UK.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 4 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$161k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+160%
-6%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +160%
  • FF
    FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +259%
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • B
    BIOVENTUS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
3
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies,…

Health
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc

Muscular dystrophy association (mda) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the united states for people living with muscular dystrophy, als, and related neuromuscular diseases. (cont. schedule o) for over 70 years, mda has led the way…

Health
8
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
9
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
10
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
11
City of Hope National Medical Center

To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.

Health
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coxhealth Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fairview Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $82,500 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE OF VIRGINIA: $20,500 · HealthMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE OF VIRGINIANATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYMEAT FIGHT INC: $10,000 · HealthMEAT FIGHT INCMS IMPOSSIBLE: $7,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthFAIRVIEW FOUNDATION: $34,500 · PhilanthropyFAIRVIEW FOUNDATI…COXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyCOXHEALTH FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …BIOVENTUS: $10,580 · OtherTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $8,500 · Human Services
Health$170,000Philanthropy$40,000Education$25,000Other$10,580Human Services$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $82,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVIEW FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE OF VIRGINIA: $20,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMS IMPOSSIBLE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bike the US for Ms Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bike the US for Ms Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Bike the US for Ms Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bike the US for Ms Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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