Ohio · Nonprofit
BIKE CLEVELAND
BIKE CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,634,519 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($880,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $974k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $911k
What Bike Cleveland does
Mission
Bike Cleveland is creating a region that is sustainable, connected, healthy, and vibrant by promoting bicycling and advocating for safe and equitable transportation for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Bike Cleveland provides education and training to increase knowledge and skills necessary to walk and bicycle safely, and educates drivers and decision makers on the rights of bicyclists and pedestrians. Additionally, we provide group riding traffic skills and education through social bike rides and presentations to improve the skills and behavior of our local ridership. We educate businesses on how to become more bicycle friendly for employees and customers, and the benefits in doing so. Finally, we teach municipalities about best practices for bike friendly policy and planning, and the reasons it is important for their communities. Accomplishments: raised the awareness of the importance of proper bike facility design like bike lanes and protected bike lanes among the public and decision makers. We educated local decision makers on biking and walking issues through the bike with a mayor initiative. We helped more people use bikes safely through the distribution of 300 helmets to individuals riding without one. We partnered with community groups to host a 5 week summer bike camp reaching over 70 middle school youth, hosted school based education classes, and community…
$80,889 spent14% of program spendingEvents and programs: Bike Cleveland grows diverse, engaged communities by focusing on outreach, fun events, and membership and by building the next generation of advocates. By having a robust encouragement component to our work we are growing ridership and improving people's comfort level on the road through group participation. Bikes are a fun, healthy, and a sustainable activity for people of all ages, and our events and programs are designed to get people outside and engaged in their community. Accomplishments: throughout 2025 we engaged over 5,000 people through our encouragement events and programs. These events included a monthly bike to work day series, encouraging over 300 people to ride a bike to work; cranksgiving, our annual foodraising ride done in partnership with the hunger network, we were able to provide over 6,700 in groceries for local hunger centers; doan brook watershed ride; the Bike Cleveland fundo, which welcomed 1,450 riders exploring cleveland by bike; celebrate trails day; and various neighborhood tabling activities. We also hosted random acts of brightness, where 18 volunteers distributed over 175 light sets and talked to cyclists about riding safely at…
$152,123 spent27% of program spendingAdvocacy: Bike Cleveland works for safe streets and public spaces through policy change and advocating for best practices in bikeway/walkway design and maintenance, resulting in an equitable transportation network. We mobilize the community to ensure bike facilities are incorporated into roadway projects and help publicize public meetings to ensure the communities desires for safe streets is heard. We are continuing to expand bicycle advocacy in greater cleveland by creating chapter organizations and supplying them with the financial resources they need to advocate for improved conditions in their own communities. Accomplishments: provided technical assistance to develop bike friendly policies for local governments; advocated for the addition of traffic calming, trails and bikeways on cuyahoga county streets; promoted community involvement at public meetings; engaged decision makers on bikes to educate them on the importance of a stress-free, connected bike network; trained 18 community members how to advance local bike & pedestrian projects through our transportation academy and another 100 through our ongoing mobility learning sessions; with our resident-led better street…
$337,387 spent59% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $570,399.
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 2024 to 2025, from $663k to $986k (+49%).
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 7% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% · 2024 41% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BIKE CLEVELAND’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $129k → $228k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 BIKE CLEVELAND’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
BIKE CLEVELAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 BIKE CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 78% · 2019 58% · 2020 65% · 2021 83% · 2022 51% · 2023 39% — 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
40% of BIKE CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
76% of BIKE CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BIKE CLEVELAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIKE CLEVELAND
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIKE CLEVELAND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIKE CLEVELAND?
- BIKE CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,634,519 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($880,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIKE CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,634,519 in grants to BIKE CLEVELAND, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKE CLEVELAND?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $880,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKE CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing