Information for donors and granting agencies

Although we are known in the Tucson community as BICAS (Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage), our official name is Bootstraps to Share of Tucson. Our most visible project (and in many years our only project) is the community bicycle education center known as BICAS. For more background, see our history page.

We appreciate your interest in supporting Bootstraps to Share of Tucson, a non-profit Arizona 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to meeting the human-powered transportation needs of youth and homeless. All donations to Bootstraps (or to one of its projects, e.g., BICAS) are tax-deductible — see below for the official IRS and Arizona documents supporting that statement. We have information on how to donate money, old bicycles, and bicycle-related items.

Our federal ID number (EIN) is 74-2580768. You may search for us in the IRS Directory, or look us up on GuideStar.

Documents open to public inspection

All tax-exempt organizations must make certain documents available for public inspection. Internet posting fulfills this requirement. (See IRS FAQ on fulfilling the public inspection requirement.) Our fiscal year runs January 1 – December 31.

Annual information returns:

These returns (IRS Form 990) summarize our activities (mostly from a financial viewpoint) and document that our tax-exempt and charitable status should remain unchanged.

To protect privacy, mailing addresses of board members and key employees (usually on pages 5 and 7) and mailing addresses of major donors (usually on page 2 of Schedule B) are removed. We have internal documentation on how we combine several documents to produce a single PDF suitable for public viewing.

Tax-exempt and charitable status:

Annual reports filed with Arizona Corporation Commission:

Please see the Bootstraps to Share records page of the Arizona Corporation Commission. (If that doesn't work, then start at the AZ Corp Commission homepage, look for "Annual Reports" in the lower left, then search for "Bootstraps to Share". We should show up as file number 05219901.)