Indiana · Nonprofit
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,616 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($453,041). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $432k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $489k
What Freewheelin Community Bikes does
Mission
To support economically challenged communities and the environment through the use of bicycles. We use training, affordable bicycles, and competitions to teach life skills, especially to the youth of the communities we serve. We support use of bicycles among people of all ages.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Staffed a bike shop that empowers the community to purchase from a well-stocked selection of tools, accessories, and used parts. Mechanics with expertise focused on growing the knowledge base of the bike riding community are also available to service bicycles.
$122,269 spent$135,408 earned by the program56% of program spendingProvided training, affordable bicycles, and competitions to teach life skills to the youth of the communities we serve.
$95,153 spent$332,300 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,422.
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 $234k to $523k (+123%).
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.
74% of FREEWHEELIN 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. 1 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $85k → $471k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
46% 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 FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 29% · 2019 46% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 48% · 2023 70% — 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
47% of FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
93% of FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $481k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES holds deeper cash reserves 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 FREEWHEELIN 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREEWHEELIN 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 FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES?
- FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,616 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($453,041). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,439,616 in grants to FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $453,041 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 31 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