The Berkeley Bicycle Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942620301
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5105012553
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,735
- Expenses
- $30,482
- Assets
- $45,165
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Hainsworth (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Hainsworth (President)
- Kevin Lee (Treasurer)
- Nathaniel English (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
The Berkeley Bicycle Club promotes social welfare through organized cycling events and social events.
What it reported doing in 2025
Club membership events such as organized bike rides and social gatherings benefiting all (approximately 400) Club members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.1%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.1% of revenue deployed · 16.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.