Oregon · Nonprofit
COMMUTE OPTIONS
COMMUTE OPTIONS (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,690 to it, the largest being CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL ($123,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Commute Options does
Mission
Promoting safer, healthier, and more livable communities through smart transportation options.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe routes to school program - teaching bike safety to elementary and middle school students and providing safe, supervised routes for students to walk to school as a group. Over 2,000 students served in 9 schools. Several bike helments were donated and additional safe walking school bus routes were created.
$353,809 spent$482,411 earned by the program32% of program spendingWork site - community outreach. Encouraging trip reduction through education and awareness on commuting options. Outreach accomplished through the Commute Options website, blog, e-newsletters, and social media. According to get there oregon, in 2025, there were 4,575 participants, which resulted in an estimated reduction of 535,156 non-drive alone miles and 191.3 tons of co2. The estimated 2025 savings to particpants totaled 301,000.
$416,761 spent$537,412 earned by the program38% of program spendingFriendly driver - community outreach. Encouraging education on the best and safest ways to use the road with people walking or riding bikes. It is a 75 minute interactive class which addresses safety, rules of the road, crash avoidance, road way features.
$330,325 spent$328,537 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,100,895.
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.
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 $352k to $554k (+57%).
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: 2021 24% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of COMMUTE OPTIONS’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. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mark Russell Johnson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $124k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COMMUTE OPTIONS’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
COMMUTE OPTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COMMUTE OPTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUTE OPTIONS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMUTE OPTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUTE OPTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.0M
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$42k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$1k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUTE OPTIONS
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUTE OPTIONS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUTE OPTIONS?
- COMMUTE OPTIONS (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,690 to it, the largest being CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL ($123,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUTE OPTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $161,690 in grants to COMMUTE OPTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUTE OPTIONS?
- CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $123,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUTE OPTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 4 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