BikeWalkKC
Legal name: Bike Walk Kc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453832438
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 816-205-7056
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,777,634
- Expenses
- $1,716,164
- Assets
- $1,759,833
- Liabilities
- $1,326,597
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC ROGERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC ROGERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,363 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. Communities:** Develop and sustain community-driven, trusting relationships that meet the transportation needs and desires of neighborhoods and create thriving communities. Systems:** Transform the current transportation system to one that supports individual choice, community health and well-being, and prosperity for all. Reputation and Visibility:** Elevate the visibility of our mission and aspirations to build lifelong personal connections that inspire action.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public policy and community planning involves building relationships with elected officials and community leaders to implement policies that improve the built environment, especially in neighborhoods that have been historically underfunded and disinvested. Bike walk kc partners with local municipalities, school districts, and regional, state, and federal agencies, as well as other active transportation advocacy organizations across both Missouri and Kansas to improve walking and biking through public policy and school travel planning. Bike walk kc uses walk audits, technical assistance, built environment assessments, traffic counting/calming events, the home street home exhibition, and other activities to help neighborhoods identify problems related to the built environment, street safety, walkability/bikeability, and other infrastructure issues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 3.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.