Bike Santa Cruz County Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821434326
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8314271928
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,609
- Expenses
- $52,559
- Assets
- $67,885
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Amelia Conlen (Board Chair)
- Emily Burton (Treasurer)
- Eric Guerrieri (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the use of bicycles, with the goal of creating safe, convenient, and enjoyable bicycling.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Bike Camp programs provided over 40 local students in need with bike safety and maintenance training, and, upon completion of the curriculum, their own free bicycle (if they needed a bike), a new helmet and accessories. They also received leadership training and nutrition education. The planned outcomes are to increase the youths' knowledge of nutrition guidelines and healthy, easy to prepare snacks, increase the youths' knowledge of bicycle safety, increase their use of bicycles as transportation, grow the bicycling community, and to encourage civic engagement.The Middle/High School Bike Club provided 40 youth, at two local schools, with after-school bike safety training. Participants received the following benefits: weekly activity and exercise, bike safety training, and on the bike practice in a group setting. The planned outcomes of this program are to increase youths' knowledge of bicycling safety and thus, increase their confidence, increase their use of bicycles in daily transportation, and to provide a continuing education for youth who complete the Earn-a-Bike program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.9%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.