Maine · Nonprofit
BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE
BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE (Maine) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,381 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($216,380). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $743k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Bicycle Coalition of Maine does
Mission
To make maine better for bicycling and walking through promotion, education, legislation, advocacy and encouragement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Maintain a coalition of people in maine and beyond, who as members, receive print and on-line information about all aspects of bicycling and walking in maine, including our programming and events, relevant legislation and policy, infrastructure options and issues, and other bicycling news. The goals of the organization are accomplished by working on: infrastructure - increase safe, accessible, and inviting bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure throughout maine. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine is committed to creating the best possible environment to support walking and bicycling. Advocacy - provide leadership at the local, state, and national level to inspire activism for effective policies, programs, and projects that have a positive impact on bicycling and walking in maine. Education - ensure the maine bicyclists, pedestrians, people using mobility aids, and motorists have the knowledge and skills to safely share the road. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine's education program fields a team of professional educators to coordinate statewide safety, education, and encouragement programs. This team provides a local presence in every county of the state, education programming to thousand…
$294,034 spentof which $600 as grants$6,974 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,034.
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 2021 to 2022, from $543k to $256k (−53%).
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: 2017 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 37% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $42k → $80k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 COALITION OF MAINE’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 COALITION OF MAINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 COALITION OF MAINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 41% · 2019 62% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2022 34% · 2023 36% — 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
54% of BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
54% of BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $342k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 COALITION OF MAINE's revenue fell 64% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE?
- BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE (Maine) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,381 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($216,380). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $743,381 in grants to BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $216,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 26 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