Missouri · Nonprofit
TRAILNET INC
TRAILNET INC (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,513 to it, the largest being P WAYNE AND JANE B GOODE FOUNDATION ($144,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $649k
What Trailnet Inc does
Mission
To lead in fostering healthy, active and vibrant communities where walking, bicycling, and the use of public transit are a way of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Planning and healthy, active communitiestrailnet's planning team partners with communities to create plans for how their streets can be better and safer for walking, biking and public transportation. In 2025, trailnet's planning team partnered with communities in the city of st. Louis, st. Louis county, hillsboro, hayti heights, qulin, birch tree, and ironton. Within the city of st. Louis, trailnet partnered with schools through the safe routes to school program to create active transportation action plans. Trailnet also provided technical assistance for transportation planning and community engagement fr two city-led comprehensive neighborhood plans.the planning team also manages and coordinates access to a traffic calming lending library, which trailnet and community groups can use to host demonstrations to test out new street designs and get more meaningful community feedback. In 2025, the traffic calming lending library was used 8 times.in addition, the trailnet planning team continues to support implementation of the connecting st. Louis plan, which resulted in two new bicycle and pedestrian safety projects: tower grove connector and the tucker bike-walk-bus project.
$290,861 spent27% of program spendingOutreach, advocacy and communicationstrailnet's complete streets for all project continues to engage residents and city leaders with the implementation of the city of st. Louis' new complete streets policy, safety improvements on arterial corridors and at hotspot intersections. Trailnet staff attended 54 neighborhood and ward meetings and 173 grassroots education events to empower them to get involved in safety improvement projects in their areas. Trailnet also educated drivers about missouri's hands free laws at 63 community events, reached 13,660 people through an advertising campaign, and collected 1,945 buckle up phone down pledges. Through bike to work day and week without driving campaigns, trailnet encouraged residents to re-imagine their daily transportation choices and support policies that make biking, walking and public transportation a safer, more practical option.trailnet's crash report compiled data about crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians to evaluate the conditions and locations that are most dangerous for vulnerable road users. The report included policy recommendations. It was covered in local media and circulated to elected officials.
$562,767 spent53% of program spendingRides and bike encouragement programstrailnet's rides program provides opportunities for people of a wide variety of ages and abilities across the st. Louis metro region to ride their bike in a supportive environment. The program encourages healthy, active living. In 2025, 2,534 riders ages 3 to 87 attended 12 ride events. Trailnet also taught 211 people critical bike safety skills through bike maintenance classes, bike rodeos, and learn-to-ride classes.
$213,164 spent$175,073 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,066,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $997k to $1.2M (+20%).
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: 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of TRAILNET INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Cindy Mense
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $59k → $221k.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 TRAILNET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
TRAILNET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 TRAILNET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 32% · 2019 51% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 14% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of TRAILNET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
84% of TRAILNET INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k 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
TRAILNET INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRAILNET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
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 TRAILNET 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 TRAILNET 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 TRAILNET INC?
- TRAILNET INC (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,513 to it, the largest being P WAYNE AND JANE B GOODE FOUNDATION ($144,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAILNET INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,016,513 in grants to TRAILNET INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAILNET INC?
- P WAYNE AND JANE B GOODE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $144,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAILNET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 40 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