Texas · Nonprofit
Wig Out
Wig Out (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,480 to it, the largest being THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Wig Out does
Mission
Wig Out provides quality wigs, headscarves, hats, toiletries, makeup & skincare tutorials to aid financially disadvantaged patients suffering from the side effects of cancer treatments. We strive to help patients reclaim their visual identity, self-confidence and dignity through compassion, care and advocacy. We serve patients on our mobile RV, via appointment or by mail. PROGRAMS: All programs are funded by grants and donations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Wig Out's Community Assistance Program services are also performed on WOOW at hospitals/cancer treatment facilities not affiliated with Harris Health System located in the greater Houston area. We also see patients by appointment at our office, or conduct vitual appointments and mail wig kits to recipients. This program is an extension of the program described in the above program line 28. We drive WOOW or private vehicles to Houston-area cancer facilities to provide our services and items. We also meet with patients in our office via appointment or virtually and mail their items to them. We have served an additional 208 patients through this program. Our virtual and mailing services are still in progress through Covid. We would love to replicate our successful model around Texas and USA.
Wig Out Breast Cancer Awareness Corporate and Community Initiatives. Breat cancer surviors/ambassadors educate our community-at-large about breat cancer prevention and detection. Educational teaching series at Crestwood, Archrock, Lululemon, churches, and other groups.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16k to $116k (+622%).
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.
100% of Wig Out’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $13k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Wig Out’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
Wig Out has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 Wig Out.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 50% · 2020 59% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 79% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Wig Out's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
66% of Wig Out's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Wig Out runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Wig Out
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wig Out: 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 Wig Out?
- Wig Out (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,480 to it, the largest being THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wig Out have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $103,480 in grants to Wig Out, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wig Out?
- THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wig Out 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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