Virginia · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES
CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,030 to it, the largest being QUANTITATIVE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $504k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $341k
- Net assets
- $263k
What Charlottesville Community Bikes does
Mission
Charlottesville Community Bikes promotes environmentally-sound transportation, recycles bicycles, and makes cycling accessible in charlottesville, va. We work to create innovative, community-rooted solutions to address community mobility needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bike referral program & free kids' bike program directly provide free refurbished bicycles (plus helmets, lights, and locks) as well as ongoing repairs for adults and children (12 and under) who are in need.
$170,920 spent47% of program spendingRefurbished bike and repair shop / workforce development collect and refurbish bikes that would otherwise end up in the landfill. Restore and sell donated bikes and operate a full-service bicycle shop. The shop serves as a revenue source for the free bike program. Organize inclusive group repair events where people from various backgrounds learn new skills and connect with others. In partnership with the boys & girls club of central virginia, there is a summer youth mountain biking program. Operates a teen job training program specifically designed to empower teens from communities that are historically underrepresented within the cycling industry.
$127,389 spent$149,881 earned by the program35% of program spendingMobile repair clinicswe hold free bike repair clinics at community events in public and low-income housing communities, helping recipients access regular bike repair services. This program welcomes people who may otherwise not feel comfortable in a bike shop setting and helps secure bicycles for students that need alternative transportation.
$63,694 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,003.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $157k to $224k (+43%).
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.
70% of CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Lauren Riegl
Executive director ( through 10/2024 )
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $14k → $88k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 93% · 2022 34% · 2023 28% — 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
72% of CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.
Against its field
CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,030 to it, the largest being QUANTITATIVE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $341,030 in grants to CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES?
- QUANTITATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 17 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