We’re calling this one Meet Your Neighbor, but this time, our neighbor isn’t a person—it’s an entire company that is actually making a difference.

Humanitix has its U.S. head-quarters right here in Denver, tucked into the Highlands, and while you may not recognize the name, there’s a good chance you’ve used its ticketing platform—or at least paid one of those little booking fees that usually makes us all groan.

But here’s where Humanitix gets interesting: they decided those fees shouldn’t just make a company more money.

Humanitix is a nonprofit, for-purpose ticketing platform that puts 100% of its booking-fee profits toward charitable causes. No shareholders. No investors waiting for a dividend. Instead, the company was built around a pretty simple idea: what if something as ordinary as buying a ticket could help somebody else?

And the story behind that idea starts with two friends.

Adam McCurdie and Josh Ross met in high school in Australia and eventually went on to very different careers. Adam became an engineer; Josh worked as a hedge fund analyst. On paper, they were doing exactly what successful young professionals are supposed to do. But a trip to Sri Lanka changed the way they looked at their careers—and what they wanted their lives to stand for.

The two began talking about the enormous role circumstance plays in a person’s life: where you’re born, the opportunities you’re given, whether you have access to education, healthcare and the basic things so many of us take for granted. They made a pact to eventually use their careers to help create some of those opportunities for people who hadn’t been dealt the same hand.

The problem was figuring out how. That answer eventually came in a rather unexpected form: ticketing.

In 2016, McCurdie and Ross launched Humanitix with a simple premise: what if the booking fees we all grumble about when buying tickets could actually do some good? Rather than building another company designed to maximize profits for shareholders, they created a for-purpose business with no investors or shareholders. Humanitix operates as a licensed 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and 100% of its booking-fee profits go toward charitable causes focused on things like education, healthcare, food security and ending extreme poverty.

It started small, among their earliest events were a Disney trivia night and a Halloween hoedown, but the idea caught on.

Today, Humanitix is a global ticketing platform with offices in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and, importantly for us, right here in Denver.

And this is where the story gets especially interesting for our little corner of Colorado.

Over the past two years, employees at Humanitix’s Denver office have directed $101,120 to Colorado charities, choosing organizations that reflect causes they personally care about. That money has supported everything from disability-inclusive theater at Phamaly Theatre Company and youth mentorship through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado and the Struggle of Love Foundation to housing at The Place, education through Colorado Youth for Change and the Education Foundation of the Summit, access to the outdoors through the Colorado Trail Foundation, healthier school meals through the Chef Ann Foundation and food security at Metro Caring.

What I love about this is that the giving isn’t coming from some distant corporate office with a giant check and a photo op. Humanitix employees are choosing where they want to see their dollars go. They’re volunteering. sThey’re showing up. They’re becoming part of the organizations they’re supporting.

Bernadette Farmer, an Account Executive at Humanitix, chose Metro Caring because she wanted to support a place where she could actually see the impact firsthand. She now looks forward to volunteering there, meeting members of the community and helping wherever she can.

Partnership Specialist Belle Cavazos chose the Chef Ann Foundation because improving school food and creating more equitable access to healthy meals felt like a powerful way to support Colorado kids. For her, the organization’s focus on systemic change made the choice an easy one.

And maybe that’s what makes Humanitix such an interesting neighbor. It’s easy to talk about doing good. It’s considerably harder to build an entire business around it.

Humanitix is betting that the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive; that a ticket to a concert, a comedy show, a school fundraiser or a night out can be more than just a transaction. It can be a tiny contribution to something much bigger.

Humanitix has now donated more than $13.5 million globally and has set an ambitious goal of reaching $70 million in charitable donations over the next three years.

Visit humanitix.com to learn more about their platform and how by booking through Humanitix, you didn’t just secure a spot, you helped fund meals, healthcare, education, and life’s basic necessities for people who need it the most.

Your ticket did more than get you through the door. It opened one for someone else. This is an app we can definitely get behind.