Bike Cleveland

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452556898
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2162453101
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$974,057
Expenses
$683,955
Assets
$986,167
Liabilities
$74,787

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNELIESE COLEMAN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JACOB VANSICKLE (EXECUTIVE DI): $107,300 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Bike cleveland is creating a region that is sustainable, connected, healthy, and vibrant by promoting bicycling and advocating for safe and equitable transportation for all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Advocacy: bike cleveland works for safe streets and public spaces through policy change and advocating for best practices in bikeway/walkway design and maintenance, resulting in an equitable transportation network. We mobilize the community to ensure bike facilities are incorporated into roadway projects and help publicize public meetings to ensure the communities desires for safe streets is heard. We are continuing to expand bicycle advocacy in greater cleveland by creating chapter organizations and supplying them with the financial resources they need to advocate for improved conditions in their own communities. Accomplishments: provided technical assistance to develop bike friendly policies for local governments; advocated for the addition of traffic calming, trails and bikeways on cuyahoga county streets; promoted community involvement at public meetings; engaged decision makers on bikes to educate them on the importance of a stress-free, connected bike network; trained 18 community members how to advance local bike & pedestrian projects through our transportation academy and another 100 through our ongoing mobility learning sessions; with our resident-led better street committees we helped residents address safety needs in their neighborhood through traffic calming, street painting, and connecting residents with decision makers. We also published our annual comprehensive crash report, providing crucial insights into the rise in bicycle and pedestrian crashes in our region, and shared it with city leaders to inform future safety investments.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $570K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.