Michigan · Nonprofit
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,924 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ($70,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $305k
What Free Bikes 4 Kidz - Detroit does
Mission
FB4K is a non-profit organization geared towards helping kids ride into happier, healthier childhoods by providing bikes to those most in need. The public donates gently used bikes and FB4K refurbishes them and gives them to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FB4K is a non-profit organization geared towards helping kids ride into happier, healthier childhoods by providing bikes to those most in need. The public donates gently used bikes and FB4K refurbishes them and gives them to those in need.
$296,811 spentof which $184,394 as grants$361,329 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $296,811.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $240k to $305k (+27%).
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.
99% of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $23k → $66k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 59% · 2020 74% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 38% — 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
20% of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
81% of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT?
- FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,924 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ($70,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $324,924 in grants to FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT?
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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