Ohio · Nonprofit
VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC
VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($10). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $231k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10
- Net assets
- $-374376
What Vehicle for Change Inc does
Mission
Leadership training, adventure education, character education, and stem (science, technology, engineering, and math related activities for children in grades k-12.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our programs include character, leadership, and stem related subjects. We teach character principals through adventure activities, mentorships, and enrichment programs. We lease and maintain equipment such as ropes courses, rock walls, and various teambuilding and physical education props. We bring these programs to school campuses, children's homes, domestic abuse centers, and juvenile detention facilities to empower young people. We strive to make seach learning experience relevant, fun, and engaging for each student, to enable them to promote their perceptions of themselves as proactive empowered problem-solvers within their community and innovators capable of changing the world. We worked with approximately 15,400 children from 44 different schools, churches, and parks & recreation departments in 2023. We expanded our scholarship program to include title 1 schools and also schools that do not qualify for title 1. Any school that offers our fee-based adventure program is assured that no child will be refused participation because a parent or guardian cannot afford the fee.
$265,492 spent$246,979 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $265,492.
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 $34k to $87k (+156%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 VEHICLE FOR CHANGE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of VEHICLE FOR CHANGE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $325k on record.
- MD$325k
- FL$468
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 VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC: 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 VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC?
- VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($10). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10 in grants to VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VEHICLE FOR CHANGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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