Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUTING SOLUTIONS
COMMUTING SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,801 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($21,770). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $869k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Commuting Solutions does
Mission
We connect people to places in the northwest metro region today and for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs that support the purpose of the organization.
$526,674 spent67% of program spendingThe co 119 wayfinding and brt branding study will convene stakeholders to create a brand identity for brt and an implementation plan for corridorr wayfinding.
$173,683 spent22% of program spendingDrcog tdm partnershipa regional travel demand management (tdm) program for the purpose of making best use of federal cmaq funds allocated to the partners in achieving relevant goals in metro vision 2040, drcog's long range regional plan:1. Achieve 25% of housing and 50% of employment in urban centers.2. Refude the number of traffic fatalities to fewer than 100 annually.3. Increase non-single-occupant-vehicle (non-sov) mode share from 25.1% to 35%.4. Reduce daily vehicle miles traveled (vmt) per capita 1%.5. Reduce transportation greenhouse gases (ghgs) and other emmissions by 60% per capita.6. Achieve average travel time variation (ttv) - peak vs off-peak - of less than 1.3.7. Achieve daily person delay per capita of less than 10 minutes.
$49,276 spent6% of program spendingProgram events - sponsorships and ticket revenue for events hosted throughout the year. These events are part of the organization's programs to encourage alternative transportation options.
$35,899 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $785,532.
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 $243k to $153k (−37%).
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: 2019 37% · 2020 12% · 2021 50% · 2022 51% · 2023 26% · 2024 54% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of COMMUTING SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Kirsten Schuchman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $16.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 COMMUTING SOLUTIONS’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
COMMUTING SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
96% 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 COMMUTING SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2023 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
96% of COMMUTING SOLUTIONS'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COMMUTING SOLUTIONS's revenue grew 45% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUTING SOLUTIONS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUTING SOLUTIONS: 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 COMMUTING SOLUTIONS?
- COMMUTING SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,801 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($21,770). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUTING SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,801 in grants to COMMUTING SOLUTIONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUTING SOLUTIONS?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUTING SOLUTIONS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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