California · Nonprofit
Outride fka The Specialized Foundation
Outride fka The Specialized Foundation (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $537,585 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $538k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Outride fka The Specialized Foundation does
Programs
Riding For Focus:In 2024, Outride granted 46 new middle schools the Riding For Focus program across the US and Canada. The program integrates a cycling program into the physical education curriculum to improve students cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional wellbeing. To support the programs, outride granted 1,500 bikes and helmets and trained 150 teacher Champions in the Riding For Focus curriculum. Additionally, Outride updated the entire Riding For Focus curriculum and hosted anin-person training event in Morgan Hill.
$1,190,732 spentResearch:Outride's research program advances understanding of how cycling supports cognitive, social, and emotional well-being. In 2024, we expanded our impact through both applied research and academic collaboration. We were awarded two new research grants to study the effects of cycling in nature on student mental health and to explore cycling's influence on brain health across the lifespan. These projects launched new partnerships with Loma Linda University School of Medicine and the University of Oklahoma. Additionally, Outride awarded two research grants to support the evaluation of youth cycling programs and their impact on social-emotional learning outcomes, in collaboration with the University of Wyoming (Laramie Middle School) and the University of Utah (Hillside Middle School). We prioritized public dissemination of findings by presenting at multiple conferences and workshops, and by hosting our annual Outride Summit to share insights on the impact of cycling on health.
$299,447 spentOutride Fund/Community Grants:Outride's Community Impact Grant empowers local communities to invest in youth cycling programs through direct grants. In 2024, Outride awarded one round of Community Impact Grants. This, the seventh round, committed over $350,000 in grants to 43 organizations focused on providing cycling programming to help youth improve their well-being. Outride's Community Impact Grant has now committed over $2,500,000 in grants via 255 community grants in 45 states since its inception in 2019.Grantees include organizations like Prime Ability Youth Cycling, a community organization working with youth from Washington DC to use cycling as a empowerment tool and to build leadership skills. The program also supported the BikeLibrary in Iowa City, Iowa, whose mission is empower people to make bicycling a primary form of transportation in their community through various programs.
$583,234 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $1.8M to $2.6M (+43%).
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 Wood
Executive Director, Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $31k → $43k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Outride fka The Specialized Foundation’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
Outride fka The Specialized Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 Outride fka The Specialized Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 46% · 2020 75% · 2021 28% · 2022 55% · 2023 77% — 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
0% of Outride fka The Specialized Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
Outride fka The Specialized Foundation draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Outride fka The Specialized Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Outride fka The Specialized Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Outride fka The Specialized Foundation?
- Outride fka The Specialized Foundation (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $537,585 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Outride fka The Specialized Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $537,585 in grants to Outride fka The Specialized Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Outride fka The Specialized Foundation?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Outride fka The Specialized Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 17 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