California · Nonprofit
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION (California) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,950,770 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,492,838). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 202
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Free Wheelchair Mission does
Mission
To provide the transforming gift of mobility to people with disabilities living in developing nations as motivated by jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We transform lives throught the gift of mobility as motivated by jesus christ. With our donors' support, we sent 64,316 wheelchairs during this fiscal year to those with disabilities in developing countries throughout the world. We have delivered over a million wheelchairs and are working toward our second million! In addition to wheelchairs, Free Wheelchair Mission donated $7,165,918 of gift-in-kind medical supplies to our distribution partners during the year. These supplies are selected for the purpose of enhancing the utility of our wheelchairs or to support surgeries that prevent physical disabilities. We are very grateful for the continued support from our donors that allows us to reach individuals that are waiting for a wheelchair and the transforming mobility it will provide.
$15,254,579 spentof which $12,485,686 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,254,579.
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 $2.3M to $3.0M (+30%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nuka Hart
Chief executive officer
Board chair
David Hummelberg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.5M.
36 of 202 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 202 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
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
69% 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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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
45% of FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION'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. Of the $10M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION has grown faster than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: 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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION?
- FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION (California) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,950,770 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,492,838). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 202 organizations giving $27,950,770 in grants to FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION, 129 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,492,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 202 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