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COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS

EIN 23-2867945 ALLENTOWN, PA

Revenue 2024
$1,454,878
Expenses 2024
$1,359,564

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O20
Classification
1000
Street
235 N MADISON ST

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 · 2024

Mission

COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS TEACHES LIFE LESSONS THROUGH BICYCLES TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY WHO COULD BENEFIT MOST.

Activities or mission (Part I)

"COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS TEACHES LIFE LESSONS THROUGH BICYCLES TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY WHO COULD BENEFIT MOST."

  • IN OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAM, EARN A BIKE, STUDENTS 9 AND OLDER TEAM UP WITH ADULT MENTORS FOR A COURSE ON BIKE MECHANICS AND SAFETY. STUDENTS PRACTICE COMMUNICATION, TEAMWORK, PERSEVERANCE, AND OTHER LIFE SKILLS WHILE WORKING ON THEIR BIKES. JUNIOR EARN A BIKE TEACHES SIMILAR LESSONS TO YOUNGER STUDENTS, WITH A SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL FOUNDATION. UPON COMPLETING THEIR COURSES, STUDENTS EARN THEIR REFURBISHED BIKE AND A NEW HELMET! IN 2024-25, 617 STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN OUR BIKE MENTORING PROGRAMS; 94% EARN THEIR BIKES. OF STUDENTS WHO COMPLETED EARN A BIKE, 92% SAID THAT EARN A BIKE HELPED THEM LEARN THEY COULD DO THINGS THEY DIDN'T THINK THEY COULD DO BEFORE.

    Expenses $1,047,913

  • CYCLING AND DROP-IN: DROP-IN OFFERS TIME TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH MENTORS THROUGH PROJECTS, INCLUDING BIKE WORK AND STEAM ACTIVITIES. WE OFFER TRAIL, TRACK, ROAD, AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PROGRAMS THAT ALLOW STUDENTS TO BE ACTIVE AND SPEND TIME OUTDOORS WITH MENTORS. OUR MOUNTAIN BIKE TEAM COMPETES ACROSS THE STATE. IN 2025, TEENS HELPED TO UPDATE THE CITY'S CYCLING ORDINANCE. THEY COMPARED THE CITY ORDINANCE TO THE STATE'S CYCLING LAW, USED THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS CYCLISTS IN THE CITY TO RECOMMEND UPDATES, AND THEN ROLLED TO CITY HALL AND PRESENTED THEIR FINDINGS TO COUNCIL. THE UPDATED ORDINANCE PASSED IN APRIL!

  • YOUTH LEADERSHIP: STUDENTS 12 AND OLDER CAN PARTICIPATE IN YOUTH LEADERSHIP SEMINARS ON COLLEGE, CAREERS, AND COMMUNITY. ONCE THEY TURN 14, STUDENTS CAN APPLY TO BECOME PAID YOUTH APPRENTICES, MENTORING YOUNGER STUDENTS WHILE LEARNING WORK SKILLS. "I HAVE BEEN COMING TO BIKE WORKS FOR 3 YEARS AND HAVE HELPED VOLUNTEER IN EARN A BIKE AND JR EARN A BIKE 3 TIMES EACH," FAYROUZ TELLS US. "I LOVE IT HERE BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE HAVE HELPED ME BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF MYSELF. I'M NOW LESS SHY, MORE OUTGOING, KINDER, AND JUST OVERALL A BETTER PERSON."

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DOLORES SINGLETARY

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LARA KUHNS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEFANIE WEXLER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEAN BLANC

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BOB BOEHRET

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHALON BUSKIRK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ADRIAN COUSENS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GREG LAMB

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETE LESSIK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STACY MELVIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS RANDLE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MELANIE SANCHEZ-JONES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • OLGA TORRES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA ZAHARAKIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TONY ZIMMERMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIMBERLY SCHAFFER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,710
    From this org
    $100,495
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,215
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,454,878
    Expenses
    $1,359,564
    Contributions
    $1,503,738
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,057,932
    Expenses
    $1,261,775
    Contributions
    $1,092,976
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,027,666
    Expenses
    $1,062,630
    Contributions
    $1,045,237
    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
    $811,958
    Expenses
    $984,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $376,905

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $791,807
    Expenses
    $785,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $569,656

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $737,516
    Expenses
    $722,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $563,531

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $780,318
    Expenses
    $598,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,397

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $551,563
    Expenses
    $536,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,893

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $414,361
    Expenses
    $514,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,324

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $393,409
    Expenses
    $343,641
    Assets (EOY)
    $452,290

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $241,414
    Expenses
    $241,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,795

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $245,791
    Expenses
    $217,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,099

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $214,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $373,935

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.