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PEDAL THE CAUSE

PEDAL THE CAUSE (Missouri) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,489,204 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($2,001,500). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.3M
Funders on record
179
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$2.6M
98/179 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Pedal the Cause does

Mission

Our mission is to provide funding for cancer research at siteman cancer center and siteman kids at st. Louis children's hospital through our annual cycle challenge. It is our hope that research funded by Pedal the Cause will ultimately lead to a cure for cancer.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, over 3,800 adults and children participated in Pedal the Cause, supported by 700 volunteers, who together raised over $5.0 million to fund cancer research. Over the past 16 years, Pedal the Cause has cumulatively donated $56 million supporting 255 adult and pediatric cancer research projects. For every $1 Pedal the Cause donates to cancer research, researchers have successfully attracted significant additional external funding to further their research, averaging $14 for every $1 initial award. In 2025, Pedal the Cause effectively distributed 85% of its revenue to program services. (continued on schedule o)major breakthroughs made possible by Pedal the Cause funds include the development of dna and peptide vaccines for multiple cancer types, cancer googles to help surgeons see cancer cells, immunotherapy harnessing our body's 'natural killer' cells and cutting-edge research in the understanding of cancer stem-cells. Pedal the Cause funds have been instrumental in obtaining spore (specialized programs of research excellence) grants in leukemia and pancreatic cancer, which lead a national group of experts in collaborative research. Pedal the Cause funded clinical trials are…

    $6,583,079 spentof which $5,042,167 as grants$333,913 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,583,079.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($5.6M) Net assets 100 ($715k)2018 Revenue 115 ($6.2M) Expenses 115 ($6.4M) Net assets 77 ($552k)2019 Revenue 120 ($6.5M) Expenses 118 ($6.5M) Net assets 68 ($489k)2020 Revenue 104 ($5.6M) Expenses 80 ($4.4M) Net assets 235 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 109 ($5.9M) Expenses 105 ($5.9M) Net assets 245 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 117 ($6.3M) Expenses 120 ($6.7M) Net assets 201 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 131 ($7.1M) Expenses 131 ($7.3M) Net assets 173 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 175 ($9.5M) Expenses 139 ($7.7M) Net assets 417 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 136 ($7.3M) Expenses 140 ($7.8M) Net assets 359 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (140)Net assets (359)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $3.2M (+116%).

$750k
$624k
$579k
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$3.2M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of PEDAL THE CAUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$142k
’17
−$164k
’18
−$21k
’19
$1.2M
’20
$71k
’21
−$315k
’22
−$199k
’23
$1.7M
’24
−$414k
’25
1.5
months of
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 Drier

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed252230333135363637
Joined·+3+13+6+5+9+8+5+5
No longer listed·65375754
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $952k → $1.9M.

19 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PEDAL THE CAUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 funders by total. 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

PEDAL THE CAUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

53% 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 PEDAL THE CAUSE.

17%
largest funder
38%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — 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

42% of PEDAL THE CAUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of PEDAL THE CAUSE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEDAL THE CAUSE's funding base is broadening — from 28 funders to 73 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PEDAL THE CAUSE

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 5%Fundraising 10%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE?
PEDAL THE CAUSE (Missouri) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,489,204 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($2,001,500). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEDAL THE CAUSE have?
IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $11,489,204 in grants to PEDAL THE CAUSE, 98 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEDAL THE CAUSE?
EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEDAL THE CAUSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 179 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing