Tennessee · Nonprofit
WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC
WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,918 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($96,775). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $696k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $265k
What Walk Bike Nashville Inc does
Mission
Walk bike nashville's mission is to make nashville more walkable, bikeable, and livable by activating our community, advocating for great streets, and demonstrating our vision through bold, visible action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Demonstrating our vision - bold, visible action: walk bike nashville demonstrates the benefits of streets built for people to normalize walking and biking while inspiring broader public support for safer, healthier, and more connected neighborhoods. Through large-scale public events, installations, services, transportation programs, and communications, the organization creates opportunities for residents to experience what a more walkable, bikeable, and livable nashville can feel like, cultivating a sense of possibility for a better future.during 2025, walk bike nashville welcomed more than 1000 cyclists in tour de nash, tennessee's largest urban bike ride. The organization also held open streets summer series, hosting nashville's largest-ever open streets event three times. Five miles of downtown streets were temporarily transformed into welcoming public spaces for people of different ages and abilities 73% of which were first-time open street attendees. About 80% of attendees said they don't typically come downtown more than a few times a month, if ever and 78% said they planned to spend money along the route. The organization also achieved the highest recorded participation in…
$222,709 spent$68,378 earned by the program51% of program spendingActivating our community - civic engagement and community leadership:walk bike nashville activates community members to participate in public decision-making, address street-level needs and collectively shape their communities. Through relationship-building, practical resources, technical assistance, and hands-on support, the organization helps nashvillians identify barriers, navigate public processes, and lead projects that make their streets safer, more walkable, bikeable, and livable. This civic engagement addresses immediate concerns while leaving community members with lasting knowledge, relationships, and tools to continue improving their neighborhoods.during 2025, walk bike nashville built upon its work in napier/sudekum, glencliff, woodbine, and in east nashville to support community-led transportation improvements and strengthen local leadership. The organization also launched the open streets community guide and toolkit, a resource designed to help nashvillians host their own car-free community events. Around halloween alone, more than 40 block-party permits were issued across the city, demonstrating growing interest in using neighborhood streets as spaces for gathering,…
$144,525 spent33% of program spendingAdvocating for great streets - policy and government advocacy:walk bike nashville advocates for great streets to advance transportation investments that create safer, more walkable, bikeable, and livable neighborhoods. Through public engagement, research, coalition building, and direct collaboration with local government, the organization influences transportation plans, policies, and capital investments while helping ensure public commitments translate into meaningful improvements on the ground. The long-term goal is a connected network that gives people of all ages and abilities the freedom and dignity to move safely throughout the city.during 2025, walk bike nashville launched its inaugural state of our streets advocacy agenda to establish priorities, evaluate progress, and identify next steps. Among the clearest advances, the nashville department of transportation and multimodal infrastructure added alternative walking pathsalso known as safe shoulders or multi-use pathsto its neighborhood street traffic calming toolkit. This creates a lower-cost option for streets where traditional sidewalks may be decades away from being built.metro nashville also added a dedicated…
$68,862 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $436,096.
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 $223k to $297k (+33%).
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 58% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% · 2024 27% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Meredith Montgomery
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $25k → $12k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC’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
WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 73% · 2021 38% · 2022 70% · 2023 52% — 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
33% of WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
55% of WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC'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 $131k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC has grown faster than half of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC?
- WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,918 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($96,775). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $288,918 in grants to WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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