California · Nonprofit
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,075 to it, the largest being MELVIN GARB FOUNDATION ($208,575). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $854k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $439k
What Vehicles for Change San Diego Inc does
Mission
Vehicles for change san diego trains those formerly incarcertaed to become automotive techninians in the san diego area and empowers families with financial challenges to achieve ecnomic and personal independence through car ownership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is aiming to bring independent transportation and automotive training programs in the automotive field to as many people as possible. Upon graduation from vehicles for change, most of the four-month trainees have passed five ase-certification levels and secure well-paying jobs as automotive mechanics/service advisors, and reducing recidivism risks by 95%.
$694,270 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $694,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $121k to $311k (+158%).
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: 2023 57% · 2024 56% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO 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
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC.
“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
97% of VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO 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 VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC?
- VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,075 to it, the largest being MELVIN GARB FOUNDATION ($208,575). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $406,075 in grants to VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC?
- MELVIN GARB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $208,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 10 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