Colorado · Nonprofit
ECO-CYCLE INC
ECO-CYCLE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,414 to it, the largest being THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECYCLING CORPORATION ($472,167). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Eco-Cycle Inc does
Mission
Eco-cycle's mission is to innovate, implement, and advocate for local and global zero waste solutions to foster a more sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Recycling of materials from commercial and residential collections for the benefit of the community and the environment. Also, education of the community concerning the importance of recycling and composting, and zero waste as a climate solution. Processed and marketed over 50,000 tons of single-stream recyclable materials and millions of pounds of hard-to recycle materials from commercial and residential sectors; collected recyclables and organic waste from hundreds of boulder county businesses; conducted over 1,500 environmental education presentations impacting over 40,000 students and teachers in 115 schools in 3 public school districts; educated over 1,300 community members in benefits of recycling and composting and engaged them in local and statewide campaigns to pursue the adoption of policies to expand recycling access and endmarkets in colorado. Eco-cycle also led coalition efforts to ensure the adoption of a detailed, effective implementation plan for colorado's ground-breaking producer responsibility for packaging recycling program, slated to begin providing expanded access to recycling services in mid-2026. Eco-cycle also led successful efforts to pass legislation…
$10,050,411 spent$9,254,961 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,050,411.
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 $2.9M to $9.4M (+222%).
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 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of ECO-CYCLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Suzanne Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $57k → $295k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ECO-CYCLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
ECO-CYCLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 ECO-CYCLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 38% · 2019 28% · 2020 33% · 2021 56% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
44% of ECO-CYCLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
ECO-CYCLE INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $798k 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
ECO-CYCLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ECO-CYCLE INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ECO-CYCLE INC: 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 ECO-CYCLE INC?
- ECO-CYCLE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,414 to it, the largest being THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECYCLING CORPORATION ($472,167). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECO-CYCLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,743,414 in grants to ECO-CYCLE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECO-CYCLE INC?
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECYCLING CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $472,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECO-CYCLE INC 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 33 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