Texas · Nonprofit
GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE
GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,885 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($448,388). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $823k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $630k
- Net assets
- $800k
What Ghisallo Cycling Initiative does
Mission
Our primary work is enabling youth to develop into self-sufficient and confident riders who have the skills and knowledge to use their bicycles for transportation without depending upon adults. We envision a future in which kids riding bikes to school and adults riding to work is viewed as normal, and all have access to bikes at an affordable price or cost. We provide programs that support bicycling as transportation, physical activity and socialization for all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cycle Academy programs enable youth to develop into self-sufficient and confident riders. Over 5970 participants received Bicycle Skills Challenge based training as part of over 130 clinics, and over 1063 participants received in-depth Bike Club programs in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. We supported over 20 schools across Austin as part of Bike to School Day. Both cities produced Trick or Treat on the Trail events related to youth pedestrian safety on Halloween with a combined total of over 1,350 attendees.
$288,591 spent42% of program spendingGolden Rollers programs engage older adults and provides an opportunity for adults ages 50 and older and/or with differing abilities to engage in bicycle and tricycle based recreation, exploration, and transportation. In Austin, we led 169 Trike Club classes at 5 sites serving 8 district recreation programs and over 800 participants and 1 safety presentation. In San Antonio, we led 38 Trike Club classes with 175 participants and 1 group ride.
$45,936 spent7% of program spendingCity Cyclist programs educate and motivate the general population by hosting local events and participating with local groups, community nonprofits, and businesses that want to promote cycling safety. In Austin, we produced Bike to Work Day with 46 Fueling Station and 1,768 riders, Cyclovia ATX with over 500 attendees and 45 partners. Austin also produced 22 adult focused programs such as BikeStart clinics, Beginning City Cycling clinics, and experiential Group Rides reaching 499 participants and another 565 through presentations and direct community engagement. In San Antonio, we produced 6 bike maintenance clinics, 7 experiential Group Rides, participated in Siclovia, and hosted a fueling station during Bike to Work Day.
$354,191 spent$158,434 earned by the program51% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $688,718.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $732k to $1.1M (+44%).
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: 2019 23% · 2020 26% · 2021 47% · 2022 49% · 2023 58% · 2024 55% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $24k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE’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
GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 48% · 2022 88% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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 GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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
GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE
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
80% 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 GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE?
- GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,885 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($448,388). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $629,885 in grants to GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $448,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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