California · Nonprofit
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,079,405 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($515,306). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition does
Mission
To build healthier and more just communities by making bicycling safe and accessible for everyone. We envision a community that values, includes, and encourages bicycling for all purposes for all people. Our overarching goal is to increase the number and diversity of people using bicycles for everyday transportation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bike to Work / Wherever Day regional program reached more people and many newer riders in FY 2024-25 than the prior year. This annual program creates the largest impact on the people of the Bay Area of any SVBC program thanks to the coordinated efforts of bike and transportation organizations in all nine Bay Area counties. For example, participants in the Bay Area Bike Challenge collectively rode nearly 160,000 miles during May. Many of these trips replaced trips by car, reducing CO2 emiisions. This program encourages people of all types to get on a bike and perhaps create a new habit of biking to get to work, run errands, or just for the fun of it.
$826,683 spentof which $550 as grants$81,126 earned by the program63% of program spendingIn 2025, our El Camino Real bike ride, which historically has brought around 200 riders along the car-dominated roadway in safe, traffic-abiding bike buses, had its highest registration yet: 400 people. Later that year the advocacy team celebrated 14 miles of new protected bike lanes along El Camino Real in Santa Clara County. Our work around expanding access to bike share in Silicon Valley continued, supporting station expansions in Daly City and San Jos. We hosted events in churches, homes, and at community hubs to spread awareness and distribute discounts to the system. Finally, we continued to advocate for increased bike infrastructure across our two counties to promote access to safe and accessible cycling.
$350,419 spent$24,450 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe bike education program reached 354 students including 33 who took the Adult Learn to Ride class. Despite undergoing staffing turnover, the team taught 24 classes covering topics such as bicycle security, e-bike basics, winter biking, bike repair and maintenance, and commuting by bike. Seven courses were parts one and two of Smart Cycling, the prerequisites to becoming a League of American Bicyclists certified instructor.
$141,675 spent$18,727 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,318,777.
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 2019 to 2020, from $970k to $1.3M (+29%).
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 9% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 17% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% · 2024 44% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Clarrissa Cabansagan
President & Executive Director
Board chair
Hong Quan
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $172k → $243k.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 24% · 2019 22% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
74% of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition'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 $550k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
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.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition: 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 Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition?
- Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,079,405 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($515,306). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,079,405 in grants to Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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