Vermont · Nonprofit
LOCAL MOTION INC
LOCAL MOTION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,745). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $451k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Local Motion Inc does
Mission
Making it safe, accessible, and fun for everyone to bike, walk, and roll in vermont.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community, education & safety: community, education & safety programs are multi-age education, safety and advocacy programs including bike smart and walk smart, safe routes for school, and complete streets. Bike smart is local motion's youth on-bike education program, serving a number of schools with a high percentage of students receiving free and reduced lunch. This program has reached over 150 towns in all 14 vermont counties. Walk smart is a curriculum used by schools for improving pedestrian safety. Safe routes for school is a program designed to make all road users safe while using our roadways, especially when traveling to and from schools. The goal of this program is to increase walking and biking by improving the safety of our streets. Additional educational programs includes workshops, group bike rides, and events that are inclusive and accessible to be as inviting as possible for anyone who is interested in bicycling and walking more. Local motion's complete streets is focused on improving on-street infrastructure and policy at both the state and local levels, with the goal of making vermont streets safe and comfortable for all users. We work towards this through a…
$292,117 spent$22,574 earned by the program36% of program spendingTrailside center & other services: the trailside bicycle rental center at the burlington waterfront rents bicycles to customers from around the world (80% from outside of vermont) and the proceeds support the programs described above. The valet bike parking service provides safe and secure bike parking at major events around the greater burlington area. Local motion also hosts an interactive map of the island line trail and burlington-based routes.
$302,077 spent$645,189 earned by the program37% of program spendingBike ferry operations: the world-class bike ferry operating at the colchester causeway is a vermont recreational cycling destination, linking the greater burlington area with the champlain islands along the island line trail. Recent riders hail from all 50 states and 30 countries, as well as bicycle tour groups.
$219,009 spent$3,758 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $813,203.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+38%).
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: 2017 30% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of LOCAL MOTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
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
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 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $76k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 LOCAL MOTION INC’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
LOCAL MOTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 LOCAL MOTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 62% · 2019 85% · 2020 57% · 2021 38% · 2022 48% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of LOCAL MOTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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 LOCAL MOTION INC'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k 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
LOCAL MOTION INC's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LOCAL MOTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- Other Grants$1.9M
- Other Grants-Service Agreemnt$1.6M
- Grants to Municipalities$543k
- Grants$171k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$155k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LOCAL MOTION INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% 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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOCAL MOTION INC: 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 LOCAL MOTION INC?
- LOCAL MOTION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,745). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOCAL MOTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $451,449 in grants to LOCAL MOTION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL MOTION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $170,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL MOTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 26 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