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BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE

BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,385 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($36,598). 8 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
$391k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$90k
Net assets
$36k
8/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Breakthrough Bike Challenge does

Mission

The organization raises funds for cancer research which will be donated to appropriate organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization raises funds for cancer research which will be donated to appropriate organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

    $384,996 spentof which $350,200 as grants$271,001 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $384,996.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($322k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2018 Revenue 96 ($318k) Expenses 99 ($317k) Net assets 101 ($21k)2019 Revenue 104 ($344k) Expenses 104 ($336k) Net assets 138 ($29k)2020 Revenue 97 ($322k) Expenses 100 ($324k) Net assets 129 ($27k)2021 Revenue 90 ($297k) Expenses 89 ($288k) Net assets 171 ($35k)2022 Revenue 104 ($345k) Expenses 111 ($357k) Net assets 110 ($23k)2023 Revenue 98 ($325k) Expenses 102 ($328k) Net assets 94 ($20k)2024 Revenue 105 ($349k) Expenses 104 ($335k) Net assets 161 ($33k)2025 Revenue 118 ($391k) Expenses 121 ($388k) Net assets 173 ($36k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (121)Net assets (173)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 2021 to 2022, from $35k to $23k (−35%).

$21k
$21k
$29k
$27k
$35k
$23k
$23k
$35k
$36k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

105% of BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$128
’18
$8k
’19
−$2k
’20
$9k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$3k
’23
$14k
’24
$3k
’25
1.1
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.

Board chair

Robert Ebby

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed788111113131112
Joined·+3+3+4+2+2+1+0+2
No longer listed·23120121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.

5 of 18 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 BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE’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

BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE.

40%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 55% · 2019 92% · 2020 87% · 2021 34% · 2022 51% · 2023 100% — 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

11% of BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states.

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FL

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE?
BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,385 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($36,598). 8 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 BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $90,385 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,598 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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