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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Washington Area Bicyclist Association

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.

$45k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Washington Area Bicyclist Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$45k50%
FY20211$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Environment$35kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rails to Trails Conservancy$70,00020%
Safe Routes to School National$10,00011%

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About Washington Area Bicyclist Association

How much does Washington Area Bicyclist Association give?
Washington Area Bicyclist Association reported 2 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Washington Area Bicyclist Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Recreation & Sports (44%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Washington Area Bicyclist Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Rails to Trails Conservancy ($70k), Safe Routes to School National ($10k).
Does Washington Area Bicyclist Association fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Washington Area Bicyclist Association based?
Washington Area Bicyclist Association is based in DC.

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 2 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $518 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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