BHSI

Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Thank you for donating

Summary: Thank you! We appreciate your donation. It will fund our work and be an inspiration to our volunteers!


If you did not check the “share mailing address” box on the PayPal site as you were donating, please send us an email with the address where you want the thank you letter for your tax records sent.

BHSI is supported by consumer donations. We do not accept any funding of any kind from anyone or any organization or company involved in the production or sale of helmets. Donors are not listed on our website.

BHSI is eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions under Section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Service code. Our IRS determination letter is dated October 17, 2016. Our Federal EIN # is 81-4084438.

We run on a annual budget of about $12,000, made possible by volunteer staff, no salaries and a lot of scrimping and saving. That beats spending our energy and any part of your donation on fundraising! Our administrative costs are no more than 15% of the budget, and the rest goes directly into program support. We are grateful for consumer contributions to support this work.

Your donation will do a lot:

  • $6 sends the duplicating masters for our pamphlets, plus other materials for photocopying by a helmet campaign.
  • $10 sends our package of DVDs with 11 videos for a helmet campaign.
  • $12 sends a Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs to a teacher or an organizer of a local helmet program, including all of our materials on a USB drive.
  • $38 pays our web costs for a month.
  • $456 pays all of our website and email server expenses for a year, serving more than a million visitors.
  • $800 sends us to an ASTM helmet standards committee meeting to work for better bicycle helmet standards.
  • $12,000 funds the entire Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute for a year!

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