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Peopleforbikes Foundation

Our vision is to make america the best place in the world to ride a bicycle through safe, fun, and connected places to ride.

$873k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Community Improvement$2.8MRecreation & Sports$757kPublic Benefit$513kPhilanthropy$221kHousing & Shelter$180kEnvironment$172kEducation$104kHuman Services$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $741,720, the rows itemized in this filing. The $873,435 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $131,715 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
  • $250k+1 grant · $320k
$12,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC$319,670
THE PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND$99,750
BIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH$62,500
CITY OF TUCSON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY$50,000
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE$30,000
NORTH AMERICAN BIKESHARE ASSOCIATION$23,500
WOMEN OF OZ NWA$18,000
WALK-N-ROLLERS$12,500
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$12,500
CICLAVIA$12,500
BIKE PITTSBURGH$12,000
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES$10,000
SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION$10,000
SUMA$10,000
BIKE EAST BAY$9,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHARED MOBILITY INC: $10k → 13%EXPLORE BIKE SHARE: $10k → 17%WE-CYCLE: $20k → 6%SHARED MOBILITY: $9k → 13%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 17%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $100k → 14%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $67k → 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

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MN
IL
WI
MI
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MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
MD
AZ
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NC
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HI
OK
LA
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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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 28 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
44

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-1%

Still filing today

82%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $927k · revenue +10%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +51%
  • DB
    DDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $220k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • N
    NACTO
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • TC
    THE CHRIS KEGEL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $165k · revenue -67%
  • PF
    PORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
Bike Share Kc

Bikeshare kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation and exercise.

Human Services
2
Slc Bike Share

To provide alternative environmentally responsible transportation to downtown travelers through a bike share program.

Public Benefit
3
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

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.

Environment
4
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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5
Washington Bikes

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
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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7
Bike Walk Kc

Our mission is to redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. our vision is a greater kansas city where everyone moves through the city and its public spaces equitably, safely, comfortably, and…

Religion
8
BikeHouston Inc

To transform Houston into a city where anyone, regardless of who they are or where they live, can safely and easily get around by bike.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Community Cycles Co Boulder Community Cycles

Community cycles educates and advocates for the use of bicycles as an affordable, viable, sustainable means of transportation.

Community Improvement
10
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
11
Neighborhood Bike Works

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

Youth Development
12
Charlottesville Community Bikes

Charlottesville community bikes promotes environmentally-sound transportation, recycles bicycles, and makes cycling accessible in charlottesville, va. we work to create innovative, community-rooted solutions to address community mobility…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Explore Bike Shareinc; the most unlike its peers is Transportation Alternatives for Marin. 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

61 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. 61 of the 89 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
30/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI RED BIKE: $300,000 · OtherCINCINNATI RED BIKENACTO: $300,000 · OtherNACTOBBC RESEARCH AND CONSULTING: $219,483 · OtherBBC RESEARCH AND CONSULTINGPORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE: $100,000 · OtherTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR PHILADELPHIA 1: $90,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $89,801 · OtherCITY OF FORT COLLINS: $86,500 · OtherBENNETT MIDLAND LLC: $80,000 · Other+41 more: $866,782 · Other+41 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC: $927,154 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTAT…PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $449,750 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INCBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC: $160,000 · Community ImprovementBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INCMETRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS: $71,811 · Community Improvement+9 more: $122,450 · Community Improvement+9 moreTHE CHRIS KEGEL FOUNDATION INC: $164,582 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $46,500 · Recreation & SportsLeague of American Wheelman Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsGHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE: $18,669 · Recreation & SportsPikeride Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCICLAVIA INC: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsDDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION: $220,100 · Public BenefitCincy Bike Share Inc: $16,500 · Public BenefitTransportation Alternatives for Marin: $13,238 · Public BenefitBIKE PITTSBURGH INC: $12,000 · Public BenefitNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $166,900 · Human ServicesWE-CYCLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSHARED MOBILITY INC: $19,450 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEXPLORE BIKE SHAREINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC: $28,499 · EnvironmentMIDWEST BIKESHARE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentTulsa Bike Share Inc: $18,500 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $7,500 · EnvironmentDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $71,881 · EducationPROPEL ATL INC: $20,000 · EducationWALK N ROLLERS: $12,500 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO: $12,000 · EducationEquiticity: $9,000 · Education
Other$2,132,566Community Improvement$1,731,165Recreation & Sports$283,251Public Benefit$261,838Human Services$226,350Environment$134,499Education$125,381

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 budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC: $927,154 over 3y, 10% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $449,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION: $220,100 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $166,900 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC: $160,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $71,881 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS: $71,811 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetEnough Pie: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $46,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $41,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGROW SMART RHODE ISLAND: $34,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBIKEMORE INC: $33,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOUSTON BIKE SHARE: $31,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIKESHARE HAWAII: $28,270 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMIDWEST BIKESHARE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetA BETTER CITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNICE RIDE MINNESOTA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLeague of American Wheelman Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWE-CYCLE: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSHARED MOBILITY INC: $19,450 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE: $18,669 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND: $18,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTulsa Bike Share Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAssociation of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals: $17,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetROAM SHARE: $17,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCincy Bike Share Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPikeride Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTransportation Alternatives for Marin: $13,238 over 1y, 64% of budgetWALK N ROLLERS: $12,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCICLAVIA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIKE PITTSBURGH INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC: $11,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSuma: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEXPLORE BIKE SHAREINC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSTREET COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $9,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC: $8,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEADOWLANDS TRANSPORTATION BROKERAGE CORP: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa ToughInc: $7,600 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

AARPPeopleforbikes Coalit…Center for Neighborho…Global Philanthropy P…Outride fka The Speci…Rei Cooperative Actio…Transitcenter IncNatural Resources Def…PatagoniaorgUnited States Energy …National Association …National Safety Counc…
AARPDC31.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AARP · Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltd · Center for Neighborhood Technology · Global Philanthropy Partnership · Outride fka The Specialized Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Transitcenter Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc · National Safety Council

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Street Trust Community Fund: 6% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 89 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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