Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON BIKE SHARE
HOUSTON BIKE SHARE (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,506 to it, the largest being PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Methodist Hospitalshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equitylocalportfolio match
- The Cullen Trust for the Performing Artsshared funders
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $32k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HOUSTON BIKE SHARE’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
HOUSTON BIKE SHARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 HOUSTON BIKE SHARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 52% · 2022 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of HOUSTON BIKE SHARE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Methodist Hospitalshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 160 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equitylocalportfolio matchTX · funds 246 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Cullen Trust for the Performing Artsshared fundersTX · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Outride fka The Specialized Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crc Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Community Toolbank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Khourie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felvis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dynamo and Dash Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evansville Endowment Fund Incshared fundersIN · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
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 HOUSTON BIKE SHARE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
28% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSTON BIKE SHARE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSTON BIKE SHARE?
- HOUSTON BIKE SHARE (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,506 to it, the largest being PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON BIKE SHARE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $97,506 in grants to HOUSTON BIKE SHARE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON BIKE SHARE?
- PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON BIKE SHARE 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.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing