Illinois · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS
LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,219 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($24,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $592k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $367k
What League of Illinois Bicyclists does
Mission
The League of Illinois Bicyclists (dba ride illinois) is a statewide bicycle advocate for all illinois bicyclists, promoting bicycle access, education, and safety. We promote bicycle-friedly towns through favorable road designs and trails, and educating bicyclists and motorists on sharing the road.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct communications with bicyclists and, to a lesser extent, others in the general public, about bike safety and a wide range of other bicycle issues. Includes much staff time, and expenses for email, website, facebook, mail, telephone, member newsletter, etc. Also includes promotion of www.bikesafetyquiz.com, online quiz-based bicycle safety lessons. Benefits 45,000 cyclists and drivers, public officials, and other members of the pulic. Also includes indirect communications with bicyclists, motorists and the general public on bicycle safety and other bicycle issues.
$266,597 spentof which $143,096 as grants66% of program spendingThe grand illinois bike tour promotes bicycling in towns through which it has passed, advocating safe bicycling for the participants and raising funds for the organization.
$83,743 spent$171,060 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe organization promoted safer bicycling through advocacy initiatives, including educating stakeholders, participating in discussions with public and elected officials, and supporting proposed safety legislation and policy intended to improve roadway access and protection. During the year, it incurred expenses related to these efforts as part of its program service activities to advance the organization's mission of encouraging safe and accessible bicycling in the state.
$52,519 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $402,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $255k to $372k (+46%).
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: 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% · 2024 42% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS’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. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
David Simmons
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $53.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS’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
LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $49 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS has grown faster 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 LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS?
- LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,219 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($24,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,219 in grants to LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS BICYCLISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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