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Bike Durham

Bike Durham (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,818 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($555,506). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$392k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$829k
Net assets
$411k
9/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Bike Durham does

Mission

Through events, advocacy and education, Bike Durham empowers all people to walk, bike and ride transit more often.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Taught bike riding safety to approx. 2,000 elementary school students. Promoted and supported Bike, Walk and Roll to School Day activities attended by an estimated 11,000 students at 20 schools twice during the year.

    $137,970 spentof which $134,626 as grants
    33% of program spending
  2. Educated residents about traffic safety risks and fare-free transit benefits, and organized residents to advocate for increased local investment in sidewalks, safe street design, and fare-free transit expansion.

    $128,893 spentof which $35,000 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. Provided transit travel training to 100 adults.

    $43,544 spentof which $38,835 as grants$5,000 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  4. Payment to the City of Durham for purchase of vertical protection equipment for buffered bike lanes.

    $60,000 spent
    15% of program spending
  5. Activities to educate and celebrate opportunities to improve infrastructure and services for walking, biking, and riding transit.

    $42,964 spent
    10% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $413,371.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($117k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2022 Revenue 32 ($38k) Expenses 24 ($22k) Net assets 119 ($101k)2023 Revenue 599 ($704k) Expenses 279 ($257k) Net assets 644 ($548k)2024 Revenue 254 ($299k) Expenses 376 ($346k) Net assets 588 ($501k)2025 Revenue 334 ($392k) Expenses 524 ($482k) Net assets 483 ($411k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (334)Expenses (524)Net assets (483)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $103k to $557k (+441%).

$87k
$103k
$557k
$505k
$410k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

61% of Bike Durham’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,206 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’21
$16k
’22
$447k
’23
−$47k
’24
−$90k
’25
9.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

John Tallmadge

Executive Director

Board chair

Shaun King

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed91010
Joined·+5+0
No longer listed·40
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $53k.

7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Durham’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 Durham leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

95% 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 Durham.

67%
largest funder
79%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 24% · 2022 95% · 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

44% of Bike Durham's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

86% of Bike Durham'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 $115k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states.

NY
CA
CO
NC
DC
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $714k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bike Durham has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Bike Durham

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 8%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bike Durham?
Bike Durham (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,818 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($555,506). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Bike Durham have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $828,818 in grants to Bike Durham, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bike Durham?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $555,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bike Durham find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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