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GOOD KARMA BIKES

EIN 27-1552370 SAN JOSE, CA

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Revenue 2025
$785,772
Expenses 2025
$656,002

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
74 BARACK OBAMA BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

We empower people and build community through bikes.

  • At Good Karma Bikes, our mission is to empower people and build community through bikes. Thousands of bicycles come to us through community donation and impound. The majority of bicycles are refurbished by volunteers and granted to those in-need. The remainder is sold in our second hand bike shop. The clients we serve are homeless, veterans, low-wage workers, and low-income families, however, we have never turned anyone away for financial reasons. As a community organization we are not limited to bicycle repaid and have also assisted client with fixing wheelchairs, walkers, and carts.

    Expenses $510,355 · Revenue $391,657

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • James T Gardner

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $186,102
    From this org
    $186,102
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,102
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $186,102

  • Andrew Sandler

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dennis Cunningham

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Chelsea Tercero

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mario Wijtman

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chelsea Tercero

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $785,772
    Expenses
    $656,002
    Contributions
    $386,729
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $818,048
    Expenses
    $634,278
    Contributions
    $427,333
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $679,207
    Expenses
    $727,854
    Contributions
    $280,183
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $540,860
    Expenses
    $499,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $309,521

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $555,454
    Expenses
    $379,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,852

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $644,447
    Expenses
    $628,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,965

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $590,324
    Expenses
    $615,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,447

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $507,230
    Expenses
    $557,548
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,156

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,936
    Expenses
    $399,006
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,806

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

    $0 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $0 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.