Louisiana · Nonprofit
METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS
METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,111 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($293,443). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $654k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans does
Mission
The Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans, dba Bike Easy, makes bicycling easy, safe and fun for everyone in Greater New Orleans .
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION-Bike Easy works to educate the community on safe conduct for people on bikes. From 4th graders to grandparents, we help people learn to safely and confidently ride their bikes. We also educate drivers, community leaders, and those charged with enforcing our traffic laws about the benefits of cycling and their role in ensuring easy, fun and safe bicycling for everyone. Efforts include Drive Safety Education Campaigns, Youth and Adult Bike Safety Trainings, and Community Leader Bike Safety Education.
$51,300 spent39% of program spendingADVOCACY - Bike Easy builds public support through grassroots organizing and community dialogue to ensure that elected officials and decision-makers prioritize safe and accessible bicycling. We push for streets built to share by being a political voice for people who bike, cultivating and supporting champions of better bicycling, and continually listening to the communitys needs in order to amplify them. Our advocacy interfaces with other important issues like walking safety, transit access, health equity affordable housing, green infrastructure, economic developmentfor all, and more. Efforts include working for Complete Streets policies, regional bikeway network planning and implementation,and better bikeways being built, i.e. protected bike lanes. We also conduct advocacy leadership development programs, enable and encourage citizen advocacy in support of better biking and walking, and represent the bicycling community in politics and policy discussions.
$35,138 spent27% of program spendingCOMMUNITY - Bike Easy helps people discover the joy of bicycling through community events and social activities. More people riding bikes increases safe behavior on our streets, builds public support for more bikeways, and adds to the growing momentum for Greater New Orleans to be a great bicycling region! Efforts include the Annual Bike to Work Day,Regular Bicycle Second Lines and other ride events. regions festivals and events, and supporting the vibrant bicycle culture of Greater New Orleans.
$46,002 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,440.
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 2017 to 2018, from $123k to $239k (+94%).
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 0% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Allene Arteaga La Spina
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $196k → $28k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS’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
METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 43% · 2019 64% · 2020 62% · 2021 59% · 2022 49% · 2023 98% — 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
25% of METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k 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
METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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 METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS?
- METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,111 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($293,443). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $654,111 in grants to METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS?
- American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $293,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METRO BICYCLE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 10 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