California · Nonprofit
VELOZ
VELOZ (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,697 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($516,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $614k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Veloz does
Mission
Veloz is a unique public-private nonprofit driving toward 100% zero-emission vehicles through strategic communications, unprecedented collaborations and purposeful convening.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For this fiscal year, Veloz performed fundraising and strategic planning to prepare for the launch and implementation our next (national) public electric vehicle education program called electric for all 'the way forward is electric'. This campaigned was developed at the intersection of hollywood-style entertainment and best-in-class information to raise awareness, provide facts and provide direct access to complimentary tools that will help the public make their next ev purchase an easy one. The 2025-2026 the way forward is electric campaign followed in the footsteps of past campaigns, with a commitment to reaching all communities, a renewed focus on consumer education and creative concepts developed based on years of consumer research. Launching a campaign of this magnitude takes significant behind-the-scenes work. This included developing the campaign creative and media strategy, managing multiple agencies, reporting, working with our creative agency to execute the campaign, upgraded Veloz.org and electricforall.org to prepare for increased use, hired a research partner to help us track the campaign's impact, secured in-kind assets for production, working to identify a top-tier…
$4,878,446 spent$1,507,500 earned by the program100% of program spendingVeloz's public summit series meetings: they are a gathering point for electric car stakeholders and Veloz members. Veloz summit attendees include representations from california utilities, transportation network companies, charging infrastructure, automakers, venture capital investors, nonprofits, government, start-ups, news media, international experts and many more. Veloz held summits in july 2024, october 2024, december 2024, february 2025 and march 2025. The goal is to address ev barriers and identify solutions to advance the electric for all ev movement. A typical Veloz summit has 250 attendees.
Veloz digital dialogues/webinars: Veloz webinars were standouts in the crowded online engagement category. Between july 2024 - june 2025, Veloz held 3 webinars that typically have 150-200 attendees.
Veloz now publishes a regular thought-leadership blog called 'the ride to zero', produces a quarterly ev market report, hosts three board meetings annually and more. To learn more, visit www.Veloz.org. Veloz's 2024-2025 annual report is published at the following link in december 2025: https://www.Veloz.org/Veloz-resources/
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,878,446.
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.
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 $4.3M to $11M (+154%).
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.
73% of VELOZ’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Josh D Boone
President/executive director
Board chair
Caroline Choi
Chair - director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $110k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VELOZ’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
VELOZ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 95% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of VELOZ's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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
VELOZ holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VELOZ receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- DEDICATED$150k
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 VELOZ
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VELOZ: 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 VELOZ?
- VELOZ (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,697 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($516,666). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VELOZ have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $613,697 in grants to VELOZ, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VELOZ?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $516,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VELOZ 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 5 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