Ohio · Nonprofit
Yay Bikes
Yay Bikes (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,372 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF MID OHIO ($16,448). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Yay Bikes does
Programs
Bike the Cbus: Bike the Cbus is our signature event each year. It is a self-guided ride held in September highlighting Columbus unique and evolving center-ring neighborhoods. Participants can choose three different routes ranging from 10-62 miles exploring the city and experiencing rest stops provided by local organizations and vendors.
$11,646 spent41% of program spendingAdvocacy Summit: Yay Bikes takes an active role in trying to actively influence the conditions that help people safely and comfortably ride bicycles for transportation. To accomplish its mission, the organization continued its annual tradition of hosting an annual Mobility Justice Advocacy Summit event. The goal was to form a coalition of like-minded organizations across Columbus and Central Ohio, focused on creating a better place for people to ride bikes. The idea is to collaborate and create change through shared resources, contacts and action. This years event was co-hosted by Transit Columbus and featured a panel consisting of mobility leaders from Columbus City Council, COTA, City of Columbus, and the Frankin County Engineers Office. It also included small group discussions and a group SWOT analysis for mobility justice activity in central Ohio.
$6,131 spent22% of program spendingYear of the Yay, Donations, and miscellaneous program expenses.
$4,083 spent14% of program spendingMonthly Neighborhood Rides: Each month the organization hosts a group event with up to 50 riders on a Saturday. The rides are organized and led by a rotating group of board members and volunteers and explore a different neighborhood in Columbus with various stops to local bike shops, coffee shops, and other small businesses on the 10-20 mile route.
$3,472 spent12% of program spendingRide of Silence: This annual ride honors cyclists killed or injured on public roadways, and raises awareness of cyclists right to the road. It is a short, slow, and silent processional with hundreds of Central Ohio cyclists joining an international movement to honor cyclists killed or injured while riding on public roadways.
$2,925 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,257.
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 2018 to 2019, from $154k to $65k (−57%).
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: 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of Yay Bikes’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $114.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Yay Bikes’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
Yay Bikes leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Yay Bikes.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Yay Bikes's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Yay Bikes is better cushioned than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Yay Bikes
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Yay Bikes: 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 Yay Bikes?
- Yay Bikes (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,372 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF MID OHIO ($16,448). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Yay Bikes have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,372 in grants to Yay Bikes, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Yay Bikes?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF MID OHIO is the largest funder on record, with $16,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Yay Bikes find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 5 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