How many funders does CYCLES FOR CHANGE have?

IRS filings report 10 grantmakers giving $199,931 in grants to CYCLES FOR CHANGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.

Who is the largest funder of CYCLES FOR CHANGE?

THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.

How can an organization like CYCLES FOR CHANGE find more funders?

Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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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CYCLES FOR CHANGE

CYCLES FOR CHANGE (Minnesota) is funded by 10 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $199,931 in grants to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$-5601

Revenue FY2020

Funders on record

$200k

Grants received

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Net assets

3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

01The organization over time

The organization over time

Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude.

20192020

Revenue (-2)Expenses (12)

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$81k

’19

−$54k

’20

0.2

months of
reserve

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

$15 from 1 funders in 2021, up from $43k and 2 in 2017.

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'21

total

The Minneapolis FoundationDAF

$62k

The McKnight Foundation

$50k

John S and James L Knight Foundation

$28k

Our Streets Minneapolis

$22k

Youthprise

$15k

Schwab Charitable FundDAF

$11k

Headwaters Foundation for JusticeDAF

$10k

Minnesota Timberwolves Fastbreak

$3k

Phyllis & Donald Kahn Foundation Inc

$300

Amazonsmile FoundationDAF

$31

funders

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CYCLES FOR CHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

CYCLES FOR CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%

largest funder

70%

top three

effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

0% of CYCLES FOR CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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.

Where its funders are

CYCLES FOR CHANGE is locally rooted: 81% of its grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

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

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Minnesota out of state home

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CYCLES FOR CHANGE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

National Center for Youth Development75%Change Starts With Me75%Robert & Wilma Burbach Bike Foundation of Mn Inc74%Wabasha Area Community Resource74%Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling73%A Better Society73%Walking With a Purpose Mn73%Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends72%

Nationally

The Bicycle Thrift Shop82%Recyclable Bicycle Exchange Inc81%Bikes for All People81%Recycle-A-Bike80%Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop Inc80%Charity Bicycles Inc80%Community Bicycle Shop of Omaha79%Recyclery of Jefferson County79%

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Operates in 1 state

Questions and answers

Who funds CYCLES FOR CHANGE?: CYCLES FOR CHANGE (Minnesota) is funded by 10 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $199,931 in grants to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CYCLES FOR CHANGE have?: IRS filings report 10 grantmakers giving $199,931 in grants to CYCLES FOR CHANGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CYCLES FOR CHANGE?: THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CYCLES FOR CHANGE find more funders?: Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 10funders 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. view filing

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