Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES
COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,311 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($218,132). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $538k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Community Cycles Co Boulder Community Cycles does
Mission
Community cycles educates and advocates for the use of bicycles as an affordable, viable, sustainable means of transportation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational and Retail Shop: Our in-house educational program teaches people how to repair bikes. The students strip and refurbish donated bikes which we either recycle or sell to support bicycle commuting in our community. At the end of the program, the students build and take home a bike. During 2024, we received 3,658 donated bikes, recycled 2,147 bicycles, refurbished and sold 1,564 bicycles, and gave away 641 bikes. In addition, these used bike parts, shop tools, mechanics, and instructors help our members to maintain their own bicycles.
$444,014 spent$561,080 earned by the program68% of program spendingOutreach and Bike Ambassadors: Our outreach program serves to educate and encourage potential new bicyclists and to advocate bicycles as a safe and viable means of primary transportation. We hold in-house workshops, attend and hold events, hold classes at employer sites and schools, send newsletters,etc., to accomplish this.
$162,210 spent$24,405 earned by the program25% of program spendingWalk and Bike Month: During Walk and Bike Month, we encourage people to try out bicycling as a means of commuting to work. For 2023, we had approximately 6,500 participants and held 7 "signature" large events during the month of june. One of our large events - a bike ride in partnership with the City of Boulder- was unfortunately rained out.
$43,872 spent$25,080 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $650,096.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.9M to $4.5M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 51% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 13% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $51k → $73k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 70% · 2019 40% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 46% — 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
28% of COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
77% of COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $125k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES?
- COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,311 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($218,132). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $538,311 in grants to COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $218,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing