Blue Ridge Bicycle Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561770687
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Flat Rock, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7135157387
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,132
- Expenses
- $143,522
- Assets
- $267,525
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Dennis (President)
- Linda Martin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Dennis (President)
- Linda Martin (Vice President)
- Paula Stone (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2025
Mini grants to support the bicycle-related projects of other groups.Matching funds for groups developing bike and greenway plans.Money to support purchase of land for greenways
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
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: -1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 27/100.