2026-09-14T17:36:12-04:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 271805554 Free Ride Bicycle Project FREE 6034548141 214 N Lexington St Pittsburgh PA 15208 Ian Carver Treasurer 9705316475 2026-09-15 false 2025 X X X X 75506 X 21006 54006 12536 41470 494 62970 1946 3430 16951 469 12669 35465 27505 130100 0 157605 X 125028 152533 5072 5072 130100 157605 130100 157605 The mission of Free Ride Bicycle Project is to enable people of all ages in the Pittsburgh region to obtain recycle and maintain bicycles for free or low cost. Free Ride aims to enhance the health of our community and environment by promoting bicycle transportation. We carry out this mission through earn-a-bike programs open shops free bicycles for kids and conducting outreach in the community. Volunteer Night: During volunteer nights community members and volunteer staff work together to refurbish donated bicycles for sale and donation and maintain the shop space to keep things clean and organized. In addition Volunteer Night serves as an education program where volunteer staff and council members educate community members about how to repair bikes and volunteers learn repair skills through doing. Our activities during this program are deliberately designed to educate our volunteers about bicycles and bicycle maintenance. We welcome people of all experience levels to attempt mechanical repairs in a supportive environment while contributing to the mission of the organization. In 2025 we repaired ~680 bikes received ~2,550 hours of volunteer support where volunteers fix bikes learn from staff members how to repair bikes and help maintain the shop and donated over ~800 bicycles to partner organizations that also repair and refurbish bikes. 0 8177 Open Shop: We open the shop for community members to bring in their own bicycles for repair or for the general public to purchase bikes and parts. Community members may fix a bike using the bicycle tools and parts available or buy used bicycles and parts. Designated Volunteer Staffers are on-hand to answer questions about how to do a repair and demonstrate bike maintenance skills. Also during Open Shop patrons purchase low-cost bicycles or request free bicycles through our free bike program. Open Shop is a community resource which is by its name open to everyone. Some of the vulnerable populations served include students unhoused individuals low income families and children. In 2025 Open Shop patrons purchased 626 free and low-cost bicycles. We served ~8,000 patrons who worked on their own bikes and purchased used parts and bicycles with about ~960 hours of volunteer staff time spent helping patrons learn how to repair their own bicycles. 0 8177 Free Bikes for Kids: Free Ride refurbishes and repairs kids bikes then gives them away to the public for free. In 2025 we repaired and gave away over 100 kids bikes. 0 0 16354 David Russell Secretary 1 0 0 0 Peter Burch Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Athena Czerwinski President 3.5 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false PA Ian Carver 328 South Ave Pittsburgh PA 15221 9705316475 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 13666 14725 11415 17420 17506 74732 13065 23598 31674 42774 53900 165011 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26731 38323 43089 60194 71406 239743 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 239743 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 7 7 494 515 26735 38326 43096 60201 71900 240258 0.9979 1.00 0 0.00 X Part I We are both a community trust described in section 170b1Avi and An organization that normally receives: 1 more than 33 1 3% of its support from contributions membership fees and gross receipts from activities related to its exempt functions-subject to certain exceptions and 2 no more than 33 1 3% of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business taxable income less section 511 tax from businesses acquired by the organization after June 30 1975 Part III - Line 1, Unusual Grant Lists | Name of the Contributor:, Date of Grant:, Year:, Amount:, Description:| Donor, 05 29 2025, "2025", $3500, One-time grant for educational programming| Donor, 04 30 2024, "2024", $4000, Bicycle Advocacy Grant - for creation of a mobile bicycle shop| Part III, line 12 | S.No:, Amount:, Description:| 1, $470, Reimbursement from PNC bank for a fraudulent transaction where $470 was deposited by check withdrawn by ACH then cancelled.| 2, $24, Interest income - savings account| Part III, line 12 | S.No:, Year:, Description:| 1, 2024, Savings account interest| 2, 2023, Savings account interest| 3, 2022, Savings account interest| 4, 2021, Savings account interest| Part I, line 8 | Other Revenues:, Amount:| Reimbursement from PNC bank for a fraudulent transaction where $470 was deposited by check withdrawn by ACH then cancelled., $470| Interest income - savings account, $24| Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Cash Drawer Over Under, $106| Insurance - General Liability and Directors and Officers, $3458| Bank charges, $2863| Accounting software, $1133| Website and meeting software, $255| Tools and replacement parts, $90| Office Supplies, $215| Replacement parts for donated bikes - eBay, $284| Fraudulent transaction, $470| Sales tax collected and paid - for goods we sell to gain revenue. Currently our accounting does not distinguish sales tax liability from sales revenue so we need to record sales tax as an expense to accurately show the balance of our accounts, $3795| Part II, line 24 | Asset Name:, BOY Amount:, EOY Amount:| Inventory, $416, $416| Prepaid Expenses, $2316, $2316| Equipment, $2340, $2340| Expenses (Part I),line 16 | Explanation:| Sales Taxes: Ive accounted for Sales Taxes as an expense due to the way our bookkeeping handles our sales. Our payment processor does not distinguish sales tax collected for a transaction from revenue earned on the sale so we track sales tax as a negative against our sales when we pay sales tax every month. Due to that if sales taxes are not reported as an expense our net excess for the year would appear much larger than it actually is.