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HAPPY WHEELS INC

HAPPY WHEELS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,158 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($189,441). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$128k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$361k
Net assets
$184k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Happy Wheels Inc does

Mission

To visit with and distribute toys and books to inpatient children at musc charleston greenville memorial childrens hospital and palmetto health childrens hospital columbia sc. Our goal is to visit these children 52 weeks a year.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Visited with and distributed toys and books to inpatient children at musc charleston and greenville memorial childrens hospital and palmetto health childrens hospital columbia sc.

    $236,752 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $236,752.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 100 ($180k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2018 Revenue 123 ($199k) Expenses 97 ($175k) Net assets 137 ($88k)2019 Revenue 171 ($276k) Expenses 110 ($199k) Net assets 259 ($165k)2020 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 69 ($125k) Net assets 316 ($201k)2021 Revenue 158 ($255k) Expenses 95 ($171k) Net assets 448 ($286k)2022 Revenue 89 ($144k) Expenses 100 ($179k) Net assets 392 ($251k)2023 Revenue 223 ($359k) Expenses 140 ($252k) Net assets 561 ($358k)2024 Revenue 145 ($234k) Expenses 137 ($247k) Net assets 541 ($345k)2025 Revenue 80 ($128k) Expenses 161 ($290k) Net assets 288 ($184k)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (161)Net assets (288)Peer revenue range

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 $345k to $184k (−47%).

$64k
$88k
$165k
$201k
$286k
$251k
$358k
$345k
$184k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HAPPY WHEELS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
$24k
’18
$78k
’19
$36k
’20
$85k
’21
−$35k
’22
$107k
’23
−$13k
’24
−$161k
’25
7.3
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed4465555
Joined·+0+2+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·001010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $31k → $48k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 HAPPY WHEELS INC’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

HAPPY WHEELS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

65% 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 HAPPY WHEELS INC.

52%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 73% · 2019 70% · 2020 78% · 2021 62% · 2022 73% · 2023 59% — 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

50% of HAPPY WHEELS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

55% of HAPPY WHEELS INC'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 $161k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from South Carolina funders.

IL
CT
NE
DE
AZ
SC

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

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’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAPPY WHEELS INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−126% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAPPY WHEELS INC?
HAPPY WHEELS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,158 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($189,441). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HAPPY WHEELS INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $361,158 in grants to HAPPY WHEELS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAPPY WHEELS INC?
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $189,441 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAPPY WHEELS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 13 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