New York · Nonprofit
MOTORCYCLEPEDIA
MOTORCYCLEPEDIA (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90 to it, the largest being AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION ($90). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $90
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Motorcyclepedia does
Mission
Motorcyclepedia exists to house a collection of motorcycles, bicycles, and memorabilia that shows our worldwide community the past, present, and future, our work, and how we all stay connected. Motorcyclepedia serves an audience of all ages and communities by connecting generations while presenting comprehensive exhibits and housing commonalities spanning over a century. Memorabilia, advertising and artifacts combine using motorcycles and bicycles from each distinct period of time where the public can look, explore and learn.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a public museum relating to motorcycles to collect, hold, and exhibit motorcycles, bicycles, and their related connections to educate the public while preserving the past, present, and future. The collection is educational in nature and references manufacture processes, technical manuals, patents, advertising, catalogs, magazines, journals, and other motorcycle and bicycle related media.
$386,763 spent$88,183 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $386,763.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $16M to $8.2M (−49%).
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.
9% of MOTORCYCLEPEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60 → $30.
From the IRS filings of MOTORCYCLEPEDIA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MOTORCYCLEPEDIA's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MOTORCYCLEPEDIA's revenue fell 41% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MOTORCYCLEPEDIA
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 New York
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
11%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOTORCYCLEPEDIA: 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 MOTORCYCLEPEDIA?
- MOTORCYCLEPEDIA (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90 to it, the largest being AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION ($90). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTORCYCLEPEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $90 in grants to MOTORCYCLEPEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTORCYCLEPEDIA?
- AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTORCYCLEPEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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