· Public charity
Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltd
Our vision is to make america the best place in the world to ride a bicycle.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $187,760 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $897,616 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $709,856 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSO | $15,000 |
| HEARTLAND FORWARD | $15,000 |
| BAHATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OUTDOOR ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| METHODS TO WINNING LLC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA BICYCLE COALITION | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION (NAFF) | $10,000 |
| BIKE EAST BAY | $10,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BIKE PITTSBURGH | $9,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- SOSEA OTTER CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +169%
- NINATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +134%
- LOLeague of American Wheelman Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +60%
Funded once
CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INCone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +16%- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDone grant, 2023 · $14k
- COCAMBER OUTDOORSone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -27%
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.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition builds healthier, happier, and more connected communities by expanding access to safe places to bike and walk, developing and maintaining trails, empowering youth and new riders, and advocating for…
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…
WABA empowers people to ride bikes, build connections, and transform places. We envision a just and sustainable transportation system where walking, biking, and transit are the best ways to get around.
The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
Through community partnerships and the effort of volunteers, we promote bicycle access, education, safety and the enjoyment of cycling to the children and adults of SW Washington. In simple terms, that translates to getting more people out…
To improve the quality of life in the Sacramento region by enabling people in all communities to make more and safer trips by bicycle.
COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.
Cycling
To provide alternative environmentally responsible transportation to downtown travelers through a bike share program.
Cascades mission is to improve lives through bicycling. We deliver community and school based education programs; work with policy makers to advocate for bicyclists and offer world class events & rides.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trailnet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trails Utah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 98 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
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 PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Safe Routes to School National ↗
- Who funds SEA OTTER CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds League of American Wheelman Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SILVER STALLION BICYCLE AND COFFEE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds California Bicycle Coalition ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBER OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
- Who funds BikeHouston Inc ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY TRAILS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Trails Utah ↗
- Who funds Laramie Bicycling Network ↗
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: Outride fka The Specialized Foundation · AARP · Peopleforbikes Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Clif Family Foundation · Transitcenter Inc · Global Philanthropy Partnership · Wh & Althea F Remmel Foundation · Seattle Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Motorola Solutions 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 Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltd 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.
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 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.