Bike Utah

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
202804553
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Phone
8012447539
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$414,065
Expenses
$568,959
Assets
$75,630
Liabilities
$785

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTOPHER WILTSIE (CO EXEC. DIR): $85,373 total reported compensation
  • TRILBY COX (CO EXEC. DIR): $84,460 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Bike Utah is the statewide, nonprofit bicycle advocacy and education organization. Our mission is to make Utah a better place to ride, and we envision a Utah where complete active transportation networks and thriving cycling culture contribute to livable, connected, healthy communities, allowing everyone to ride regardless of age, ability, race, or income. We aim to accomplish this mission by: working for laws and legislation that encourage and promote safe cycling; educating cyclists and motorists about safe cycling, sharing the road, and obeying the law; assisting in the development, growth, and effectiveness of local cycling advocacy groups; developing a network of safe cycling routes throughout Utah; and promoting sustainable, healthy lifestyles.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community assistance program: bike Utah's community assistance program (cap) was fully operational in 2024 and aimed to provide holistic support for communities in becoming more bicycle-friendly. We lend our staff expertise and resources to identify and address barriers to cycling, turn an idea into reality, and make communities even better places to ride. Our community engagement, education, and planning teams partner with community groups, schools, nonprofit organizations, tribes, government agencies, and more. This partnership assists local communities in addressing barriers to cycling and creating a more bike-friendly environment by providing a broad range of services and skills such as active transportation planning assistance, safe routes to school advisory, safe cycling training, bike maintenance events, and community workshops. Cap education: in 2024, the cap education program continued to provide onsite bike safety education, bike safety assemblies, bike fix events, and support for bike buses at elementary schools and summer camps. By providing safety education for both riders and drivers, repair events, and opportunities to ride, bike Utah sought to reduce multiple barriers to safe cycling for students across the state. In 2024, 596 students participated in bike safety training, 4646 attended bike safety assemblies, and 88 students participated in bike buses. An additional 14,000 driver's education students took bike Utah's bike-friendly driving module in Utah's online driver's education course. Program staff helped repair 236 bicycles and donated ~150 helmets for youth. Additionally, bike Utah provided traffic safety analyses for 3 elementary schools to facilitate identifying safer routes to school for students. Cap community engagement: bike Utah was actively involved in various community engagement programs aimed at increasing accessibility, education, and infrastructure for cyclists across the state. One of our notable collaborations was with free bikes for kids, where we helped refurbish and distribute bicycles to elementary school students, ensuring that more children had access to active transportation and outdoor recreation. During three community events we partnered with 14 volunteers and refurbished 40 bicycles that were given away. Additionally, bike Utah supported wheelie spoked, an organization focused on building inclusive cycling communities, by helping them develop and expand their programs to reach more riders. To support cyclists in need, bike Utah also organized fix-it days at youth centers and resource centers for the unsheltered, providing maintenance and repair services to keep bikes in good working condition. We fixed 81 bikes and 2 walkers at community resource centers to help keep these populations rolling. Beyond access to bikes, bike Utah prioritized education and skill-building through various courses and hands-on initiatives. We offered an e-bike commuter course, equipping riders with the knowledge to safely and efficiently integrate electric bikes into their daily transportation. 12 salt lake city residents completed the course. Our winter commuting course, in partnership with unplugged wellness, taught 12 cyclists how to navigate cold-weather riding conditions, ensuring year-round bike use. Additionally, bike Utah supported an initiative to improve bike parking, providing technical assistance to businesses and organizations that wanted to install bike racks, helping to expand secure and accessible bike parking across the state. Bike Utah assisted the installation of 11 bike racks in 2024. Through these diverse programs, bike Utah fostered a more connected and cycling-friendly community across Utah. Cap planning: bike Utah partners with local and regional governments on dozens of active transportation projects throughout the state. We frequently serve as stakeholders on planning projects, provide technical support to local active transportation committees, and lead development of several

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $23.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -37.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $458K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.