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BICYCLE COLORADO

BICYCLE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,277,792 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($796,200). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
82
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$329k
49/82 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Bicycle Colorado does

Mission

We lead a passionate and growing movement that champions the interests of everyone who rides or wants to ride a bicycle in our state.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Denver streets partnership, share the road and other: reclaim denver's streets for people walking, rolling, biking and using transit, and to build safe, healthy and equitable communities. Promote the courteous, responsible, and legal use of colorado roads by bicyclists and motorists. Also includes other programs to promote and encourage bicycle tourism, improve conditions and safety for bicycling, and provide a voice through participation in events and lobbying for bicyclists in colorado.

    $962,129 spent$452,022 earned by the program
    75% of program spending
  2. Community education: work with agencies and employers to develop bicycle- friendly programs, policies, and plans.

    $256,568 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Safe routes to school: aid school districts and local governments to educate and encourage more students to safely walk and bicycle to school.

    $64,142 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,282,839.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($940k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($571k)2018 Revenue 96 ($900k) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 59 ($337k)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 101 ($1.2M) Net assets 50 ($288k)2020 Revenue 198 ($1.9M) Expenses 123 ($1.5M) Net assets 113 ($643k)2021 Revenue 186 ($1.7M) Expenses 146 ($1.8M) Net assets 106 ($603k)2022 Revenue 249 ($2.3M) Expenses 167 ($2.0M) Net assets 157 ($899k)2023 Revenue 186 ($1.7M) Expenses 170 ($2.1M) Net assets 104 ($595k)2024 Revenue 195 ($1.8M) Expenses 146 ($1.8M) Net assets 112 ($641k)2025 Revenue 131 ($1.2M) Expenses 126 ($1.5M) Net assets 58 ($329k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (126)Net assets (58)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $322k to $968k (+201%).

$651k
$373k
$322k
$968k
$691k
$923k
$640k
$699k
$380k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of BICYCLE COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$287k
’17
−$234k
’18
−$49k
’19
$355k
’20
−$40k
’21
$296k
’22
−$339k
’23
$45k
’24
−$319k
’25
2.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed161614151515151512
Joined·+0+4+4+0+0+3+0+1
No longer listed·06300304
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $259k → $776k.

15 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BICYCLE COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BICYCLE COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BICYCLE COLORADO.

15%
largest funder
43%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

39% of BICYCLE COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

57% of BICYCLE COLORADO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BICYCLE COLORADO's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BICYCLE COLORADO

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 8%Fundraising 9%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO?
BICYCLE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,277,792 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($796,200). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BICYCLE COLORADO have?
IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $5,277,792 in grants to BICYCLE COLORADO, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BICYCLE COLORADO?
THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $796,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BICYCLE COLORADO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing