Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BIKES NOT BOMBS INC
BIKES NOT BOMBS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,179,215 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,180,300). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Bikes Not Bombs Inc does
Mission
Bikes not bombs uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change. The organization reclaims thousands of bicycles each year, and creates local and global programs that provide skill development, jobs, and sustainable transportation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational training/bike shop: the vocational training/bike shop program reconditions and sells the bikes that the organization receives, employing many graduates of its programs. The shop's profit from the bicycle sales, parts sales, and repairs goes towards funding the organization's youth and international work providing a reliable andsustainable source of earned income. The bike shop offers free and low-cost workshops on bicycle maintenance and repair, and an vocational training program for young apprentices.
$1,827,200 spent100% of program spendingEducation and outreach: bike not bombs education and outreach program coordinates all of the organization's communications with supporters and volunteers (monthly e-news, social media, etc.) and organizes a number of events and programs (including the annual bike-a-thon) that engage people in their programs.
Youth programs: more than 3,500 young people have participated in bikes not bombs' youth leadership and cycling programs, which teach mechanics and safe urban riding, job skills, and environmental and social justice. By providing quality after-school programming to youth, bikes not bombs engages directly with the young people of jamaica plain, dorchester, roxbury and mattapan. In earn-a-bike and girls in action, bikes not bombs' flagship out-of-school learning and earning programs for youth
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,827,200.
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 2020 to 2021, from $777k to $1.5M (+99%).
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.
81% of BIKES NOT BOMBS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Elijah Evans
Executive director
Board chair
James Nguyen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $117k → $1.6M.
19 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NOT BOMBS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 funders by total. 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 NOT BOMBS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 BIKES NOT BOMBS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 32% · 2019 34% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% — 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 BIKES NOT BOMBS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
81% of BIKES NOT BOMBS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
BIKES NOT BOMBS INC has grown faster than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BIKES NOT BOMBS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $252k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$182k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$70k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BIKES NOT BOMBS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BIKES NOT BOMBS 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 NOT BOMBS INC?
- BIKES NOT BOMBS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,179,215 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,180,300). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIKES NOT BOMBS INC have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $6,179,215 in grants to BIKES NOT BOMBS INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIKES NOT BOMBS INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIKES NOT BOMBS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 103 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