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Cincy Bike Share Inc

Cincy Bike Share Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,752 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($312,002). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$569k
Net assets
$1.5M
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Cincy Bike Share Inc does

Mission

To operate red bike, the cincinnati region's bike share system, providing a transportation option, that increases mobility and adds to the vitality of the region.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated red bike bike share system. There were 110,808 rides taken on red bike in 2024. There were 1,437 annual or monthly members in 2024, and 6,285 casual or walk-up users. Low income member program - red bike go had 662 members, and they took 61,338 rides on red bike or 55.3% of all rides.

    $792,282 spent$273,022 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $792,282.

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 ($659k) Expenses 100 ($920k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 111 ($735k) Expenses 106 ($973k) Net assets 87 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 153 ($1.0M) Expenses 107 ($986k) Net assets 85 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 86 ($567k) Expenses 109 ($999k) Net assets 62 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 139 ($919k) Expenses 112 ($1.0M) Net assets 56 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 152 ($1.0M) Expenses 77 ($706k) Net assets 72 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 144 ($948k) Expenses 121 ($1.1M) Net assets 54 ($986k)2024 Revenue 226 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($990k) Net assets 81 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (108)Net assets (81)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+50%).

$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.0M
$1.5M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 33% · 2020 32% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 49% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of Cincy Bike Share Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$260k
’17
−$239k
’18
$23k
’19
−$432k
’20
−$106k
’21
$297k
’22
−$168k
’23
$497k
’24
2.6
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.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed79991097
Joined·+3+1+0+2+0·
No longer listed·11011·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $60k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Cincy Bike Share 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

Cincy Bike Share Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

45% 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 Cincy Bike Share Inc.

55%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 79% · 2019 77% · 2020 83% — 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

40% of Cincy Bike Share Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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 FY2020, 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

95% of Cincy Bike Share Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
CA
CO

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

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’18
’19
’20
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Cincy Bike Share Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Cincy Bike Share 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cincy Bike Share 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 Cincy Bike Share Inc?
Cincy Bike Share Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,752 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($312,002). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cincy Bike Share Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $568,752 in grants to Cincy Bike Share Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cincy Bike Share Inc?
CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $312,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cincy Bike Share Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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