Colorado · Nonprofit
GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM
GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,386 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($7,386). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $215k
What Golden Optimists Bicycle Recycle Program does
Mission
BIKES FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM.Our mission is to provide bikes for people who need them for transportation exercise and fun by repairing donated bicycles and making them available for re-use.This organization is all volunteer - no paid staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
BIKES FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM. In 2025 volunteers repaired about 700 used donated bicycles of which 350 were given away for free and the remainder sold to people at affordable prices.Free bikes were given to childrens Christmas programs newly resettled refugees unhoused people and referrals from social service programs social service agencies and the justice system.Most recipients were also given helmets locks and other accessories.The used donated bikes are not run through the program accounting system.We only expense the bike parts and supplies used to refurbish them. Also included expenses for rental of facility to refurbish bikes depreciation of fixed assets maintenance upkeep and insurance.
$0 spentBIKES AND BIKE REPAIR FOR NAVAJO PEOPLE.Volunteers refurbished 40 bikes and rented a van to take them to Crownpoint New Mexico where they were given away.Volunteers also stayed a few days to repair another 30 bikes for local people and gave away parts and supplies to a local bike program there. In kind costs listed in grants given as 2,200
$0 spentBIKE SAFETY AND MAINTENANCE EDUCATION.Another accomplishment of 2025 was reaching an estimated 850 kids and adults with programs promoting bicycle safety and general bike maintenance.Events included bike-to-school days,school and park district bike education programs and other community events. The costs for program handouts and giveaways 303.52 are included in Cost of Goods as additional program services expenses.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $169k to $216k (+28%).
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.
84% of GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM
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.
Public support
96%
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 GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM: 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 GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM?
- GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,386 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($7,386). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,386 in grants to GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLDEN OPTIMISTS BICYCLE RECYCLE PROGRAM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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