Walk Bike Nashville Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Demonstrating our vision - bold, visible action: walk bike nashville demonstrates the benefits of streets built for people to normalize walking and biking while inspiring broader public support for safer, healthier, and more connected neighborhoods. Through large-scale public events, installations, services, transportation programs, and communications, the organization creates opportunities for residents to experience what a more walkable, bikeable, and livable nashville can feel like, cultivating a sense of possibility for a better future.during 2025, walk bike nashville welcomed more than 1000 cyclists in tour de nash, Tennessee's largest urban bike ride. The organization also held open streets summer series, hosting nashville's largest-ever open streets event three times. Five miles of downtown streets were temporarily transformed into welcoming public spaces for people of different ages and abilities 73% of which were first-time open street attendees. About 80% of attendees said they don't typically come downtown more than a few times a month, if ever and 78% said they planned to spend money along the route. The organization also achieved the highest recorded participation in walk to school day since the initiative began in 1999, with more than 50 schools participating. Schools throughout the city were provided with event supplies, resources, and training at no cost.additional programs included bicycle valet service at nashville soccer club and Tennessee titans home games, the quickticket discounted transit pass program, the pedestrian memorial, and communications campaigns that illustrate the benefits of streets for people. By showing that people-centered streets can be safe, joyful, useful, and welcoming, these programs normalize streets designed for everyone and build public support for permanent change.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
• Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
• Fundraising efficiency: $29.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings