Maryland · Nonprofit
BIKEPACKING ROOTS
BIKEPACKING ROOTS (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,957 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $177k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Bikepacking Roots does
Mission
Bikepacking Roots supports and advances bikepacking the growth of a diverse bikepacking community and access to and the conservation of the landscapes and public lands through which we ride. We lower the barriers to bikepacking through intentional route design educational programming inclusive events a grant program and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through our Routes Pillar we develop and maintain bikepacking routes and publish resources to help riders enjoy those routes. This includes maintenance of our route information for all Bikepacking Roots signature routes. In 2023 we launched a new project called the Community Routes project where we work with route stewards around the country to showcase routes that they have created and have committed to ongoing stewardship of. In 2024 we published 16 new routes through this project. We also published a new Signature Route from the Mexico to Canada called the Great Plains Gravel Route. We served as fiscal sponsors of the Orogenesis Collective a project to build the longest mountain bike trail in the world but in 2025 they became their own 501c3 so that project was transitioned out from our Routes Pillar.
$47,594 spent$10,998 earned by the program31% of program spendingThrough our Community Pillar we support the bikepacking community through education in-person events and grantmaking. We created free virtual workshops on a variety of bikepacking topics. We also expanded our Regional Community Stewards program recruiting new volunteer stewards from around the country to collaborate on community building activities and beginner-friendly campouts starting in 2024. Our BIPOC Bike Adventure Grant program awarded grants to 1 organizations in 2025 a carry-over from our 2024 grant round and we launched the next round of applications in late 2025 with grants to be awarded in 2026.
$96,620 spentof which $1,200 as grants$32,175 earned by the program62% of program spendingThrough our Advocacy Pillar we connect bikepackers with landscapes inspiring riders to become public lands and conservation advocates who follow a positive impact ethos. We foster positive long-term relationships with public land managers private landowners and the small communities through which we ride in order to promote visibility and access for the bikepacking community. We also work to lower barriers to bikepacking by improving and expanding camping options for cyclists and supporting efforts to make travel to reach bikepacking destinations easier through participating in efforts such as the national Amtrak Bike Task Force.
$10,854 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,068.
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.
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 $115k to $212k (+84%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Noelle Battle
Executive Director
Board chair
Mike Teachey
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $81k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 BIKEPACKING ROOTS’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
BIKEPACKING ROOTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 BIKEPACKING ROOTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of BIKEPACKING ROOTS'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k 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.
Organizations like BIKEPACKING ROOTS
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIKEPACKING ROOTS: 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 BIKEPACKING ROOTS?
- BIKEPACKING ROOTS (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,957 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIKEPACKING ROOTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $176,957 in grants to BIKEPACKING ROOTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKEPACKING ROOTS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKEPACKING ROOTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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