Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT
THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,729 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,075,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $651k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $48k
What The Bike Union Mentoring Project does
Mission
Empower at-risk youth by providing them jobs and essential core-competency skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hired and trained additional at-risk youths during the fiscal year. Some employees were trained to fix bikes and taught the health and environmental benefits of bicycling to share with the public. Other employees were taught how to brew a cup of coffee and the values of customer service.
$620,827 spent$232,069 earned by the program99% of program spendingHired and trained additional at-risk youths during the fiscal year. These employees were trained to fix bikes and taught the health and environmental benefits of bicycling to share with the public.
$4,941 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $625,768.
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 $228k to $102k (−55%).
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: 2021 17% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $152k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT’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
THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 62% — 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
50% of THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
96% of THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: 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 THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT?
- THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,729 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,075,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,496,729 in grants to THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 10 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