Texas · Nonprofit
WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION
WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,730 to it, the largest being FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Why-Not-Me Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to utilize our resources and seek out those interested in breaking the cycle of poverty to make an impactful change. Through the why-not-me center, we plan on emphasizing the importance of childrens health, education, and sports as an outlet to improve their circumstances. We want to empower these children in order to enable them to dream big and reach their full potential. We are looking for leaders with compassion who are ready to step up and say why not me?
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Why-not-me center (wnm) offers a safe and healthy living environment for the discarded and often-victimized talib children of senegal. In order to halt and eventually reverse this devastating humanitarian crisis, we will use the wnm center to teach and nurture as many talib as possible through our modern sports and education programs. Wnm center includes sports and education programs, which use athletics and academics to empower the youth of africa. The wnm center, located in bouna ndiayes familys hometown of lingure, senegal, will use the power of sports and education to foster creative thinking and competitive spirit. As the center continues to grow, these children will become contributing members of their community and greater society.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $69k to $28k (−59%).
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.
95% of WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION’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
WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
100% 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 WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION.
“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
WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION's revenue fell 59% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION?
- WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,730 to it, the largest being FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $106,730 in grants to WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION?
- FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing