Iowa · Nonprofit
BIKE LIBRARY INC
BIKE LIBRARY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,791 to it, the largest being Outride fka The Specialized Foundation ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $424k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $403k
What Bike Library Inc does
Mission
The purpose of Bike Library Inc, is to expand cycling transportation options, reduce automobile congestion, provide education in promotion of cycling, and provide the general health benefits that accompany cycling. Bike Library Inc is dedicated to increasing the number of people riding bicycles for transportation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Community bike support and education: our organization focuses on recycling and up-cycling donated bikes, advocating for bicycle infrastructure, and empowering diverse individuals through repair, care, and riding education. With fifteen programs, our flagship six-month bicycle checkout lends refurbished bikes, offering an affordable entry in bicycling . In 2024, the bike library checked out 114 bicycles, providing a primary mode of transportation for many.our as-is bicycle sales allow patrons to purchase low-cost bikes and parts. We offer free programs, repair classes, and "rent-a-bench" services guided by skilled mechanics. In 2024, we sold 539 as-is bicycles, and through other programs served a total of 2000 people with refurbished bikes. Our youth initiatives provide free bikes, safety education, and partnerships for school rides and week-long bicycle camps. We engage the public through community rides so individuals gain confidence in cycling.
$221,706 spent$199,162 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $221,706.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $103k to $459k (+344%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of BIKE LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Wiedemeier Audrey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $16.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LIBRARY INC’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 LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BIKE LIBRARY INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LIBRARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BIKE LIBRARY 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIKE LIBRARY INC: 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 LIBRARY INC?
- BIKE LIBRARY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,791 to it, the largest being Outride fka The Specialized Foundation ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIKE LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,791 in grants to BIKE LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKE LIBRARY INC?
- Outride fka The Specialized Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKE LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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