Ride Up Grades Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852213041
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- West Harrison, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175625482
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,862
- Expenses
- $68,799
- Assets
- $69,100
- Liabilities
- $180
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tracy Norton-Fisher (Director & President)
- Chris MacMurray (Director & Vice President)
- Aliya Tyus-Barnwell (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tracy Norton-Fisher (Director & President)
- Michael Fisher (Director & Treasurer)
- Chris MacMurray (Director & Vice President)
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
Ride Up Grades seeks to bridge the transportation and health divide in NYC through youth cycling programs. We break down the barriers to entry for young people from all backgrounds to start commuting and competing. We believe that the cycling world benefits from diversity, and that ALL young people can benefit from access to cycling. We seek to level the playing field by creating equity and access in road cycling and racing, and by building networks of diverse, confident and hard pedaling future leaders.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ride Up Grades @ TREK Bike Camp - The heartbeat of Ride Up Grades. Always held for two weeks, this camp is for riders who have the basic (can pedal unassisted and ride in a relatively straight line and brake safely) We take them from awkward handling and no understanding of gearing to being able to ride competently in a group, handle hills, corners, flat tires and more. Every camp includes mechanics and nutrition components. They begin as solo riders and emerge inevitably as a team. Every year coaches and campers are moved (literally to tears at the last day circle) by the transformation 150 miles in two weeks makes in the individual cyclist and group as a whole.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
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: 6.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.