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Outride fka The Specialized Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Outride fka The Specialized Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $925k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $135,784 |
| Girls in Gear | $30,000 |
| Battle Creek Middle School | $19,710 |
| Columbia Heights Educational Campus | $16,590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,590 |
| Hudson Junior High School | $16,590 |
| The Highbridge Green School | $16,560 |
| Corning Painted Post Middle School | $16,560 |
| Gratiot | $16,560 |
| Walt Disney Magnet School | $16,116 |
| Davidson Middle School | $15,802 |
| Lakewood Middle School | $15,650 |
| The Craig School | $15,444 |
| Fremont Middle School | $15,378 |
| Northeast Guilford Middle School | $15,015 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PBPROJECT BIKE TECH4× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +139%
- SCSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +54%
- PCPEOPLE CYCLE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MKMORE KIDS ON BIKESone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -28%
- LPLINCOLN PARK BMX ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue -32%
- CFCenter for Recreation Education Artone grant, 2022 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Shift is a community-centered bicycling hub providing mobility and skills to all. We believe Eugene and Lane County will be world-class, bicycle-friendly communities by 2050, where cycling is safe,supported, and woven into the daily life…
Bike utah is the statewide, nonprofit bicycle advocacy and education organization. our mission is to make utah a better place to ride, and we envision a utah where complete active transportation networks and thriving cycling culture…
Neighborhood bike works provides equitable access to bicycling and bike repair through education, recreation, leadership and career building opportunites.
Middle and high school MT bike team
Provides high-quality mountain bike instruction to local youth in Bozeman Montana and supports the expansion of mountain biking opportunities for the community including community events and trail development.
The mission of the California Bicycle Coalition is to advocate for equitable, inclusive, and prosperous communities where bicycling helps to enable all Californians to lead healthy and joyful lives.
Develop, coach and inspire junior cycling athletes
Our mission is to broaden access to cycling in Topeka through hands-on education and bike repair. The Topeka Community Cycle Project exists to serve everyone through various programs. You can bring your own bike during open shop to work on…
To promote safe bicyling for everyday transportation and recreation. this is accomplished by working with local jurisdictions to design improved bicycle facilities, identifying project funding, and providing countywide bicycling education.
We work to make bicycles accessible to everyone in the East Bay community. We provide bike education affordable repairs and refurbished bikes.
After kids show up on the scene, the trail still calls. Mountain biking is a passion for many families. But it's not like little league. Often families that ride don't have peers for the kids to participate with. This club bridges that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cycle Effect and the most unlike its peers is Pedal Power. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 522 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROJECT BIKE TECH ↗
- Who funds MORE KIDS ON BIKES ↗
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK BMX ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIDE UP GRADES INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE CYCLE INC ↗
- Who funds GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TRAILS FOR YOUTH ORG ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS ↗
- Who funds CYCLES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDS ↗
- Who funds San Diego County Bicycle Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds WHEEL FUN ↗
- Who funds Equiticity ↗
- Who funds Girls In Gear Inc ↗
- Who funds I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltd · Clif Family Foundation · Catena Foundation · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Peopleforbikes Foundation · Climate Ride Inc · Rails to Trails Conservancy · Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition · Justice Outside · The Colorado Health Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Outride fka The Specialized Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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