California · Nonprofit
WHEELS 4 LIFE
WHEELS 4 LIFE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,310 to it, the largest being CLIF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($32,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Wheels 4 Life does
Mission
Organization's primary purpose is to provide bikes to people in need of transportation in thirld world countries to get to work, medical care or to school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide bikes to people in need of transportation in thirld world countries to get to work, medical care, or to school. This was achieved primarily using volunteer labor.
$49,854 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,854.
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 2018 to 2019, from $248k to $208k (−16%).
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.
81% of WHEELS 4 LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mark Peterman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 WHEELS 4 LIFE’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
WHEELS 4 LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 91% · 2020 66% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of WHEELS 4 LIFE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WHEELS 4 LIFE's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WHEELS 4 LIFE
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.
Public support
93%
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 WHEELS 4 LIFE: 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 WHEELS 4 LIFE?
- WHEELS 4 LIFE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,310 to it, the largest being CLIF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($32,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHEELS 4 LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,310 in grants to WHEELS 4 LIFE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHEELS 4 LIFE?
- CLIF FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHEELS 4 LIFE 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 2017–2025), 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