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SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC

SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC (California) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,081,075 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($1,775,400). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
185
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$2.8M
99/185 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What School on Wheels Inc does

Mission

Enhancement of educational opportunities for children who are experiencing homelessness from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tutored and mentored 1,646 unhoused students.trained and matched 1,238 volunteers to tutor these students.distributed 10,576 brand new backpacks filled with school supplies.provided 454 laptops/devices and hotspots.tutored in six counties in southern california.

    $3,020,048 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,020,048.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 93 ($3.4M) Expenses 109 ($3.3M) Net assets 102 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 95 ($3.5M) Expenses 99 ($3.0M) Net assets 123 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 82 ($3.0M) Expenses 98 ($3.0M) Net assets 123 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 35 ($1.3M) Expenses 45 ($1.4M) Net assets 117 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 102 ($3.7M) Expenses 110 ($3.4M) Net assets 136 ($2.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (102)Expenses (110)Net assets (136)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $2.8M (+18%).

$2.6M
$2.4M
$2.8M
$2.8M
$2.6M
$3.0M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$594k
’20
$50k
’21
$456k
’22
$5k
’23
−$112k
’24
$377k
’25
9.8
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.

Chief executive

Charles Evans

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed161617171515
Joined·+1+1+0+1+4
No longer listed·10034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $651k → $1.7M.

28 of 185 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 185 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

SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left

27% 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 SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC.

14%
largest funder
23%
top three
~29
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% — 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

41% of SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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

SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve9.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC?
SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC (California) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,081,075 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($1,775,400). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC have?
IRS filings report 185 organizations giving $13,081,075 in grants to SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC?
THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $1,775,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 185 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