California · Nonprofit
California Bicycle Coalition
California Bicycle Coalition (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being THE SEED FUND GRANTS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $697k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $-49950
What California Bicycle Coalition does
Mission
The mission of the California Bicycle Coalition is to advocate for equitable, inclusive, and prosperous communities where bicycling helps to enable all Californians to lead healthy and joyful lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
E-bikes for Everyone-Bikes are already a simple solution to many huge problems; e-bikes are a broadly accessible solution. But they can be expensive. CalBike works to educate the public on the role that e-bikes can play in replacing car trips while also providing other important benefits such as health, economy, and safety. CalBikes work supports that as a climate solution, e-bike subsidies are more valuable than e-car subsidies. CalBike has worked with the administering agency to monitor and advance the e-bike incentive program approved in 2021 throughout to move towards program launch estimated for fall 2023, gathering an email list of interested parties and keeping Californians updated on progress of the program and steps to participate once launched for consumers and vendors.Legislative Improvements- In the past year, CalBike has advocated for a number of legislative improvements to increase safe and fun bicycling and active mobility. Decriminalizing jaywalking reduces the number of traffic stops for people on foot (and walking bicycles), especially important for over-policed communities of color. Several bike-friendly updates to the California Vehicle Code included requiring…
$467,941 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $467,941.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $89k to $25k (−72%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Cynthia Rose
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Mobility Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money California Bicycle Coalition raised.
From the IRS filings of California Bicycle Coalition’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
California Bicycle Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2023 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
California Bicycle Coalition draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 California Bicycle Coalition
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- California Mobility Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Bicycle Coalition: 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 California Bicycle Coalition?
- California Bicycle Coalition (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being THE SEED FUND GRANTS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Bicycle Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $101,000 in grants to California Bicycle Coalition, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Bicycle Coalition?
- THE SEED FUND GRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Bicycle Coalition find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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