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CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS

CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,560 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($184,747). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.7M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$251k
Grants received
$178k
Net assets
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 105 ($12M) Expenses 107 ($11M) Net assets 104 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 87 ($9.5M) Expenses 104 ($11M) Net assets 67 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 99 ($11M) Net assets 78 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 109 ($12M) Expenses 107 ($11M) Net assets 90 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 85 ($9.3M) Expenses 109 ($12M) Net assets 36 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 38 ($4.2M) Expenses 50 ($5.3M) Net assets 11 ($453k)2025 Revenue 34 ($3.7M) Expenses 37 ($3.9M) Net assets 4 ($178k)
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Revenue (34)Expenses (37)Net assets (4)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$306k
18
$177k
19
$1.6M
20
$457k
21
$496k
22
$2.2M
23
$1.1M
24
$275k
25
0.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $25k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% 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 CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS’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

CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 96% · 2023 96%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

CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 6 states in all.

NY
PA
MO
DE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
20
21
22
23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $501 on record.

State$501
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $501

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 CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 4%Fundraising 9%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 39 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS?
CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,560 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($184,747). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $250,560 in grants to CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS?
Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $184,747 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARITY CARS INC AKA 1-800-CHARITY CARS FREE CHARITY CARS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing