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Cascade Bicycle Club

Cascades mission is to improve lives through bicycling.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$812k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.2MYouth Development$177kEducation$129kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$9kInternational$7k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $718k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$50,477
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
North Central ESD$811,564
Northwest ESD 189$497,057
Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition$334,335
Individual grant recipient$168,782
Bike Works$167,394
Vancouver School District$97,239
Spokane Public Schools$90,877
Bellingham Public Schools$89,334
ESD 112$53,762
ESD 105$50,477
Everett Public Schools$48,752
ESD 123$42,411
City of Auburn$19,272
Puyallup School District$15,564
Auburn School District$14,338
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Children of the Valley: $10k → 11%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.
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.
03Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Central ESD: $811,564 · OtherNorth Central ESDNorthwest ESD 189: $497,057 · OtherNorthwest ESD 189Individual grant recipient: $168,782 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVancouver School District: $97,239 · OtherSpokane Public Schools: $90,877 · OtherTHE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $89,334 · Other+13 more: $284,914 · Other+13 moreWhatcom Mountain Bike Coalition: $334,335 · Recreation & SportsWhatcom Mountain Bike …Bike Works Seattle: $167,394 · Recreation & SportsBike Works SeattleCHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $10,499 · Human ServicesSHARING WHEELS: $9,534 · Youth DevelopmentST HELENS BAND PATRONS: $5,500 · Education
Other$2,039,767Recreation & Sports$501,729Human Services$10,499Youth Development$9,534Education$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhatcom Mountain Bike Coalition: $334,335 over 1y, 32% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $167,394 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $89,334 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $10,499 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHARING WHEELS: $9,534 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetST HELENS BAND PATRONS: $5,500 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

  • Who funds Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
  • Who funds THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SHARING WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRALIA-CHEHALIS CHAMBER OF COMME RCE ↗
  • Who funds ST HELENS BAND PATRONS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

For Inspiration and R…InvestedWashington First Robo…School's Out Washingt…Puget Sound Energy Fo…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)NH14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Invested · Washington First Robotics · School's Out Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cascade Bicycle Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cascade Bicycle Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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