Georgia · Nonprofit
BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC
BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC (Georgia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,278,667 to it, the largest being PETTERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($900,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Bearings Bike Shop Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to put the right tools in the hands of youth enabling them to advance their skills to build productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through four programs, bearings bike works uniquely provides learning experiences and resources to help youth develop in the context of work - all connected to bike building, riding, racing and related life skills. Skills for life is bearings- drop-in after school program where kids are exposed to transferable technical knowledge and skills from the starting point of a childhood icon, the bike. In skills for life, all program activities and skills assessments are based on building and fixing bikes; learning is self-paced, and earning and maintaining a bike provides natural incentives for progress. Soft skills and character strength development are embedded into the experience and supported by caring, trusted adult mentors. In 2023, over 300 students logged over 4,000 hours in skills for life programming, developing skills and building relationships. Students demonstrated skill mastery through mechanical curriculum "level ups" 150 times. Over 80% of students surveyed report having at least one high quality developmental relationship with an adult leader at bearings. Gearing up is a school-partnership program that offers hands-on, student- centered learning experiences and…
$1,034,611 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,034,611.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $2.8M (+133%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Loni Metter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $76k → $546k.
10 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 52% · 2019 41% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC?
- BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC (Georgia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,278,667 to it, the largest being PETTERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($900,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,278,667 in grants to BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC?
- PETTERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing