Texas · Nonprofit
CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education
CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,555 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $935k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $514k
- Net assets
- $295k
What CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education does
Mission
CYCLE sees all Houston area 3rd-graders reading at or above grade-level, which research shows they are more likely to graduate high school. We award 2nd-graders at Title 1 schools a bicycle for achieving their literacy goals and they learn hard work pays off.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, we awarded our 200,000th bike to a 2nd grade student. During the year, we awarded 6,311 bikes to 2nd-grade students who achieved their reading goals, which is typical given current fundraising levels and bike costs. CYCLE held its customary fundraising programs and awarded bicycles to 2nd graders. Companies continued to donate money and labor to team-building events at NRG in December and to company events throughout the year. Individuals and families also donated time and money to build bikes at our NRG event. Funds were also raised at our Bicycle Ball and other events during the year. Net proceeds were used to buy bikes and helmets and cover expenses.
$691,876 spentof which $588,318 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $691,876.
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 2022 to 2023, from $777k to $375k (−52%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Rebecca LB Roberts
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $80k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
51% 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 CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 61% · 2019 51% · 2020 84% · 2021 47% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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
17% of CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education?
- CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,555 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $513,555 in grants to CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education?
- ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CYCLE Changing Young Children's Lives through Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 16 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