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SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION

SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,117,153 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,008,535). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$349k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$198k
4/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association does

Mission

To ensure that our public lands offer fun, challenging, and sustainable mountain biking for all mountain bikers. We believe everyone should ha ve access to the social, physical, and mental benefits of mountain biking

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Summits provide volunteers, land managers, advocates, and members with days of trail stewardship. We provide workshops, presentations, panels providing SORBAs organizations and partners with the tools to create a robust and diverse organization. Summits also provide a space for voting matters by the board members.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2018 Revenue 74 ($39k) Expenses 76 ($41k) Net assets 21 ($16k)2022 Revenue 204 ($108k) Expenses 99 ($53k) Net assets 132 ($96k)2023 Revenue 257 ($136k) Expenses 193 ($103k) Net assets 177 ($130k)2024 Revenue 658 ($349k) Expenses 525 ($281k) Net assets 271 ($198k)
20172018202220232024
Revenue (658)Expenses (525)Net assets (271)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 $130k to $198k (+53%).

$79k
$21k
$96k
$130k
$198k
20172018202220232024
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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$389
’17
−$1k
’18
$55k
’22
$33k
’23
$68k
’24
8.1
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

Philip Darden

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $595k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION’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

SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 78% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

20% of SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

MT
DE
NC
GA
TX

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION

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In Georgia

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

40% of spending goes to programs.

Program 40%Management 53%Fundraising 7%

Governance

51
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION: 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 SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION?
SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,117,153 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,008,535). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,117,153 in grants to SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION?
CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,008,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 9 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