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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$136k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.9MYouth Development$831kRecreation & Sports$804kHealth$186kHuman Services$184kEnvironment$136kFood & Nutrition$80kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $925k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
$12,420
Median grant
34
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$135,784
Girls in Gear$30,000
Battle Creek Middle School$19,710
Hudson Junior High School$16,590
Individual grant recipient$16,590
Columbia Heights Educational Campus$16,590
Gratiot$16,560
Corning Painted Post Middle School$16,560
The Highbridge Green School$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FamilyMeans: $10k → 6%Recycle Bikes for Kids: $8k → 17%Adventure for All Corporation: $20k → 9%Alamosa Bicycle Coalition: $10k → 17%BOOSTER CLUB INC: $50 → 7%The Special Children Center Inc: $7k → 11%Free Bikes 4 Kidz MN: $37k → 11%Recycle Bikes for Kids: $1k → 17%Adventure for All Corporation: $18k → 9%Trips for Kids Charlotte: $15k → 10%Southeast Community Development Corporation: $21k → 14%Gearin' Up Bicycles: $28k → 14%Free Bikes 4 Kidz Eugene-Springfield: $3k → 15%Free Bikes 4 Kidz MN: $30k → 11%Northwest Side Housing Center: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
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WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 66 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
371

Total granted

$1.9M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • PB
    PROJECT BIKE TECH
    4× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +139%
  • SC
    SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +54%
  • PC
    PEOPLE CYCLE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • MK
    MORE KIDS ON BIKES
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -28%
  • LP
    LINCOLN PARK BMX ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue -32%
  • CF
    Center for Recreation Education Art
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
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.

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Skyline Mountain Bike Team Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Shift Community Cycles

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…

Recreation & Sports
3
Bike Utah

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Neighborhood Bike Works

Neighborhood bike works provides equitable access to bicycling and bike repair through education, recreation, leadership and career building opportunites.

Youth Development
5
Pchsmtb

Middle and high school MT bike team

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Bozeman Youth Cycling

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
California Bicycle Coalition

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.

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8
Boulder Valley Cycling Alliance

Develop, coach and inspire junior cycling athletes

Recreation & Sports
9
Topeka Community Cycle Project

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Marin County Bicycle Coalition

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.

Education
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Biketopia

We work to make bicycles accessible to everyone in the East Bay community. We provide bike education affordable repairs and refurbished bikes.

Education
12
Blue Tailed Skinks

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cycle Effect; 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.
04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 522 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
116/123
Grantees still filing
65/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $135,784 · Other+141 more: $2,994,751 · Other+141 moreMORE KIDS ON BIKES: $80,377 · Recreation & SportsMORE KIDS ON BIKESLINCOLN PARK BMX ASSOCIATION: $52,330 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN PARK BMX A…RIDE UP GRADES INC: $47,269 · Recreation & SportsRIDE UP GRADES INCPEOPLE CYCLE INC: $45,154 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE CYCLE INCGHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsGHISALLO CYCLING I…MILE HIGH 360: $41,315 · Recreation & SportsCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $37,039 · Recreation & SportsHOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDS: $35,534 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $33,662 · Recreation & SportsThe Cycle Effect: $33,175 · Recreation & SportsASHLAND BIKE PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsEarn A Bike Org: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsI CHALLENGE MYSELF INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsGirls In Gear Inc: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCATION INC: $29,231 · Recreation & Sports+10 more: $185,457 · Recreation & Sports+10 moreFRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS: $38,054 · Youth DevelopmentCYCLES OF CHANGE: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHEEL FUN: $32,975 · Youth DevelopmentCYCLES FOR LIFE INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDINE WE CAN: $29,723 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $24,924 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $24,587 · Youth DevelopmentBellas Mentoring Inc: $19,759 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $17,138 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER STALLION BICYCLE AND COFFEE WORKS INC: $16,996 · Youth DevelopmentOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR RECREATION EDUCATION ARTS TECHNOLOGY & ENTERPRISE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHERAPINK FOR GIRLS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT BIKE TECH: $101,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $63,250 · EducationEquiticity: $30,123 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $27,369 · EducationPocatello Community Charter School: $18,659 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $15,444 · EducationFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN: $67,328 · Human ServicesAdventure for All Corporation: $37,005 · Human ServicesFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OF ATLANTA CO: $29,374 · Human ServicesGEARIN UP BICYCLES: $27,594 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $21,253 · Human ServicesTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $15,000 · Human ServicesSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $52,043 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $38,271 · EnvironmentWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED: $24,206 · EnvironmentTrails Utah: $15,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Boggs Mountain: $14,437 · EnvironmentWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $29,450 · Arts & CultureEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM: $26,456 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,130,535Recreation & Sports$785,543Youth Development$317,156Education$255,845Human Services$222,554Environment$143,957Arts & Culture$55,906

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPROJECT BIKE TECH: $101,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN: $67,328 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $63,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK BMX ASSOCIATION: $52,330 over 1y, 11% of budgetSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $52,043 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRIDE UP GRADES INC: $47,269 over 3y, 15% of budgetPEOPLE CYCLE INC: $45,154 over 2y, 18% of budgetGHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE: $45,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTRAILS FOR YOUTH ORG: $43,946 over 2y, 18% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $41,315 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL: $40,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $38,271 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS: $38,054 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCYCLES OF CHANGE: $38,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $37,039 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetAdventure for All Corporation: $37,005 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDS: $35,534 over 2y, 31% of budgetSan Diego County Bicycle Coalition: $34,786 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $33,662 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $33,175 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWHEEL FUN: $32,975 over 2y, 17% of budgetASHLAND BIKE PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetEarn A Bike Org: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetI CHALLENGE MYSELF INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGirls In Gear Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDINE WE CAN: $29,723 over 2y, 100% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $29,450 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OF ATLANTA CO: $29,374 over 1y, 36% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $29,231 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEARIN UP BICYCLES: $27,594 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $27,369 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM: $26,456 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS: $25,290 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPEDAL POWER: $25,025 over 2y, 47% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $24,996 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $24,924 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $24,587 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED: $24,206 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $21,253 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUSA CYCLING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBellas Mentoring Inc: $19,759 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPocatello Community Charter School: $18,659 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $17,138 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSILVER STALLION BICYCLE AND COFFEE WORKS INC: $16,996 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $15,444 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Rei Cooperative Actio…Peopleforbikes Coalit…Clif Family FoundationCatena FoundationNational Recreation F…Dick's Sporting Goods…Peopleforbikes Founda…Climate Ride IncRails to Trails Conse…Silicon Valley Bicycl…Justice OutsideThe Colorado Health F…
Rei Cooperative Action FundWA30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Outride fka The Specialized Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Outride fka The Specialized Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Outride fka The Specialized Foundation 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 522 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-PF 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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