Urban Bycycle Food Ministry - Des Moines Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475092970
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5159888684
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Meals on Wheels
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,521
- Expenses
- $104,101
- Assets
- $171,250
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robby Collier (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Robby Collier (Executive Director)
- Ray Turner (Chief Financial Officer)
- Brian Thompson (Director of Communications)
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
Urban Bicycle Food Ministry purchases and makes food, bottled water and collects other donated and personal care items and delivers to between 475 and 650 homeless or food insecure people every Thursday night, 52 weeks a year. We Served food and water to approximately 28,807 people in 2025. Each Thursday night we make and deliver to unhoused and food insecure persons on the streets of Des Moines, 900 fresh burritos, 460 meat sandwiches and 460 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also purchase 250 bananas Oranges, Granola bars and 500 bottles of water each week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
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: 31.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th 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: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.