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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: January 2025 Expires: January 2026

Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(801) 328-2453
325 W 900 S
Salt Lake City, UT, 84101-2805
https://bicyclecollective.org/
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Governance

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  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

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  2. Annual Report
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  6. Complaints

Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"The mission of Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective, affordable and sustainable form of transportation, recreation, and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society.  Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community focusing on children, new arrived refugees, and lower income households."

Year, State Incorporated:
2002, UT

Founded in 2002, Bicycle Collective is a community resource to provide a path to personal and self-reliant transportation for any one in need, focusing on children and low-income communities. Since its inception, it has received more than 50,000 bicycles as donations and prevented them from ending up in the landfill. These bicycles are refurbished and upcycled, and put back on the road as a low-cost or free transportation medium for those most in need, as well as for anyone in want of an affordable alternative to driving a car. 

Bicycle Collective operates numerous programs throughout the State at four locations: its main site in Salt Lake City (est. 2002), Ogden (est. 2015), Provo (est. 2015) and St. George (est. 2017). At each of these locations, Bicycle Collective uses a sustainable business model that accepts donated bicycles and repairs, refurbishes or recycles them. 

Bicycle Collective funding model combines earned income and charitable fundraising. Annually, Bicycle Collective operates with a budget of more than a $1 million. Bikes sold in its shops along with sales of parts and components, rented bench time and tools, community memberships, and bike valet services account for 60% of our annual operating revenue. Charitable donations through individuals, corporations, foundations and in-kind revenue provide the remaining 40% of income.

Bicycle Collective's array of community programming includes: 

Bikes for Goodwill for adults (providing free bikes to low-income and refugee communities, people experiencing housing insecurity or homeless, individuals in recovery from substance abuse though community partners)
Earn-A-Bike (individuals not working with a community partner but in financial need are eligible to volunteer in our shops to earn a bike)
Junior Mechanic Certification Programs (job training for young adults)
Community Bike Shop (also known as Open Shop) which includes Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-With-Help
Youth Open Shop 
Youth-In-Corrections Training
Women Only Night
Women Trans Femme (WTF) Night 
Kids bike giveaway program
Bike Valet service for community events. 

(Programming varies slightly at each location).

Professional bicycle mechanics and trained volunteers refurbish nearly half of all donated bicycles making them available to individuals in need through our more than 60 community partners including nonprofits, governmental departments, and churches. Having a bicycle provides someone with independence, mobility and a self-reliant form of transportation.  As part of its Bikes for Goodwill program, it provides individuals with financial need and not referred by a community partner, the opportunity to earn a bike through volunteering at the shop.  The Work-Trade program provides individuals with similar financial need the opportunity to volunteer in exchange for parts for a bike they already own.
In addition, Bicycle Collective provides the community low-cost or free help for repair and maintenance, after school programs and bike mechanic job training for youth at all of its shops and at juvenile detention facilities throughout the state. 

Statistics for 2023 include:5686 bikes were donated to Bicycle Collective1,349 bicycles given away (779 to children and 550 to adults), 334 volunteers donated 6757 hours of work time. 1,556 bicycles sold at an average prices of $243.52, 82.5 tons of material recycled (79.2 tons of steel and aluminum and 3.3 tons of rubber).

For the year ended December 31, 2023, Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective's program expenses were:

Programs $1,695,881
Total Program Expenses $1,695,881

Chief Executive
Donna McAleer, Executive Director

Chair of the Board
Ann Mackin

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Western Governors University

Board Size
10

Paid Staff Size
19

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Grant proposals, Internet, Appeals via Social Media (Facebook, etc.)

% of Related Contributions on Fundraising: 3.43%

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Source of Funds
Bike Sales $842,364
Contributions $837,915
In-Kind Contributions $398,020
Donated Rent $78,170
Other Program Services $8,455
Government Grants $6,228
Fundraising Events $1,000
Interest Income $6
Total Income $2,172,158

Programs: 88% Fundraising: 4% Administrative: 8%

Total Income $2,172,158
Total expenses: $1,916,669
  Program expenses $1,695,881
  Fundraising expenses $74,226
  Administrative expenses $146,562
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $255,489
Beginning Net Assets $3,095,793
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $3,351,282
Total Liabilities $2,708,924
Total Assets $10,060,801

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