Connecticut · Nonprofit
BIKES FOR KIDS INC
BIKES FOR KIDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,275 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $254k
What Bikes for Kids Inc does
Mission
Our mission is for every child to be able to experience the enjoyment of owning and riding their own bicycle. We believe the freedom and friendship that comes from exploring a neighborhood by bike is invaluable. Riding a bike is a skill that contributes to a sense of independence and self-esteem while supporting a healthy lifestyle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our mission is for every child to be able to experience the enjoyment of owning and riding their own bicycle. We believe the freedom and friendship that comes from exploring a neighborhood by bike is invaluable. Riding a bike is a skill that contributes to a sense of independence and self-esteem while supporting a healthy lifestyle.
$114 spent0% of program spendingOur mission is for every child to be able to experience the enjoyment of owning and riding their own bicycle. We believe the freedom and friendship that comes from exploring a neighborhood by bike is invaluable. Riding a bike is a skill that contributes to a sense of independence and self-esteem while supporting a healthy lifestyle.
$59,408 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,522.
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 2024 to 2025, from $194k to $255k (+31%).
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.
96% of BIKES FOR KIDS INC’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $19k.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BIKES FOR KIDS 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
BIKES FOR KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 39% · 2019 63% · 2020 66% · 2021 62% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of BIKES FOR KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
62% of BIKES FOR KIDS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BIKES FOR KIDS INC 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 BIKES FOR KIDS 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 BIKES FOR KIDS 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 BIKES FOR KIDS INC?
- BIKES FOR KIDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,275 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIKES FOR KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $169,275 in grants to BIKES FOR KIDS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKES FOR KIDS INC?
- KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKES FOR KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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