Minnesota · Nonprofit
BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,681 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($785,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $721k
What Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota does
Mission
To engage people, provide education, and advocate for biking and walking.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bike rides/events: organized 4 major rides with 150 to 2,000 participants. Also organized several smaller rides with less than 100 people.
$180,640 spent$264,400 earned by the program18% of program spendingEducation: the education program organizes about 10 trainings per year for about 200 teachers to use the walk bike fun elementary school safety curriculum and provides technical assistance and loaner bicycles to about 40 schools per year that are implementing the curriculum. This work is supported by mndot. The program also coordinated a statewide network of more than 200 volunteer bicycle safety instructors with support from members and events.
$302,690 spent$574,220 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunities and businesses that want to provide programs and facilities that will make bicycling safer and more accessible. We consult with community and business leaders and staff to provide assessments and recommendations for improvements. This program is implemented with support from the minnesota department of health, the mcknight foundation, and other supporters. This program provides assistance in about a dozen communities throughout minnesota per year and supports ten local chapter committees.
$537,938 spentof which $10,595 as grants$336,690 earned by the program53% of program spendingEducation: the education program reorganized in 2020 to do teacher trainings in three phases, an online do it yourself session, a video conference with bikemn trainers and outdoor on bike sessions following covid-19 protocols. These sessions trained about 150 teachers to use the walk bike fun elementary school safety curriculum and provides technical assistance and loaner bicycles to about 40 schools per year that are implementing the curriculum. The curriculum was revised to include distance learning and learn at home programs in 2020 and translated into hmong, somali, and spanish, as well as english. These procedures were still used in 2023. This work is supported by mndot. The education program also coordinated and held online. Trainings for a statewide network of more than 100 volunteer bicycle safety instructors that held a few outside classes including some adult learn to ride programs.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,021,268.
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 2023 to 2024, from $430k to $857k (+99%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $13k → $211k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 63% · 2019 60% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 52% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
80% of BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA?
- BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,681 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($785,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,344,681 in grants to BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $785,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing