Dirty Freehub
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862999340
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5412796576
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,792
- Expenses
- $144,966
- Assets
- $170,787
- Liabilities
- $70,081
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda English (Executive Director / Board Chairperson)
- Pete Stein (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Linda English (Executive Director / Board Chairperson)
- Kevin English (Director of Content / Board Secretary)
- Cam Schmitz (Board Treasurer)
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
Primary Exempt Purpose - To document & publish gravel bike route guides that focus on the following social missions. **Inspiration, Accessibility, & Community: We help you get out & ride, no matter your skill level, promoting health, joy, & connection while building a supporting cycling community. **Connection: You'll discover the culture, history, & heritage of the places you explore. **Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide: Your rides spark positive interactions between urban & rural communities. **Economic Impact: Your presence boosts local businesses in the towns you visit. **Awareness of Nature: You'll grow your appreciation for the plants, animals, and landscapes you ride through. ** Stewardship: You'll help care for trails & public lands-leaving them better than you found them. **Industry Influence: Your voice & participation inspire the bike industry to support positive social impact.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ride Guides (Development, Publication, Marketing, Distribution). Added 1,200 route miles and 30 ride guides, including upgrading 13 guides to "5 Star", and 15 existing ride guide updates. Resulting in 14,000+ curated gravel route miles in 350 digital ride guides. 20 new ride videos were published. Ride guide improvements include "When to Ride" graphic, "Outfitters Block", Linked Gravel Guidebooks, Alternate Parking Options, Fly-Out Modality for Text, Fly-Out Modality for Video. There were 500 daily, and 15,000 monthly, website visits. Two All Access Gravel Guides were published and printed for distribution, for Eastern Oregon and Western Oregon. Total Community Reach was 24,000 community followers, with 3,600 Facebook (FB), 6,500 Riding Oregon Gravel FB forum members, and 2,400 Riding Arizona Gravel FB forum members; 4,460 Instagram; 3,700 Dirty Freehub newsletter subscribers; 1,000 YouTube; 3,300 Meetup members. For a more complete picture of the operations of Dirty Freehub, see our Impact Report at https://dirtyfreehub.org/impact-reports/
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
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: 14.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.