South Carolina · Nonprofit
DENVER BIKE SHARING
DENVER BIKE SHARING (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,565 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($42,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $0
What Denver Bike Sharing does
Mission
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in denver by building and operating a comprehensive, city-wide bike sharing system.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Denver Bike Sharing serves as a catalyst for a fundamental transformation in thinking and behavior by operating a bike sharing system in denver to enhance mobility while promoting all aspects of sustainability: quality of life, equity, the environment, economic development, and public health. The long-term goal of Denver Bike Sharing is to offer a public bike sharing system of 600 dockless bikes to denver residents and visitors. Denver Bike Sharing ceased operations of the denver b-cycle system as of january 30, 2020. Multiple factors led to this decision including aging equipment, dpsa term and expiration, changing mobility landscape and competition. Denver Bike Sharing partnered with a new vendor and competed for the city of denver's rfq in the spring of 2020. On july 23, 2020, we received word from the public works department that Denver Bike Sharing was not selected.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $969k to $139k (−86%).
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: 2017 20% · 2018 27% · 2019 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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 → 2020: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $52k → $55.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 DENVER BIKE SHARING’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
DENVER BIKE SHARING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 DENVER BIKE SHARING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 40% · 2019 33% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
72% of DENVER BIKE SHARING'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.
Organizations like DENVER BIKE SHARING
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 DENVER BIKE SHARING: 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 DENVER BIKE SHARING?
- DENVER BIKE SHARING (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,565 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($42,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DENVER BIKE SHARING have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $99,565 in grants to DENVER BIKE SHARING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER BIKE SHARING?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER BIKE SHARING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5 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