Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC
WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,511 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($71,942). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Wheels for Winners Inc does
Mission
Fix bikes to give to kids and adults who perform community service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Refurbish donated bikes and distribute them via an earn a bike program. Bike earners complete volunteer service in order to earn a refurbished bike, new bike lock, and new bike helmet. In 2025, we distributed 497 bikes to earners, 374 helmets, and 386 locks.
$27,614 spent75% of program spendingParticipate in bike repair events in madison and the surrounding communities. Our volunteers participated in 43 bike repair events and repaired 643 bikes. We received the legacy award from bayview foundation and also received the 2025 collaboration award from community shares of wi.
$9,205 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,819.
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 2024 to 2025, from $258k to $277k (+7%).
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.
82% of WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Neil Mccallum
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $40k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FOR WINNERS 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
WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 88% · 2022 58% · 2023 32% — 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
75% of WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FOR WINNERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WHEELS FOR WINNERS 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
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 FOR WINNERS 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 WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC?
- WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,511 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($71,942). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $168,511 in grants to WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHEELS FOR WINNERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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