Colorado · Nonprofit
Wish for Wheels Inc
Wish for Wheels Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,760 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($228,755). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Wish for Wheels Inc does
Mission
Wish for wheels is a colorado based non-profit that gives away bicycles to children residing in low income areas. Wish for wheels donates these bikes through elementary schools chosen based on median income for that particular school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wish for wheels exists to empower children, families, and communities with the gift of a new bike and helmet. Our communities are strengthened as volunteers come together to serve the children and families in their community. Through the gift of a new bicycle and helmet, we transform the lives of 2nd graders in economically disadvantaged communities, broadening their scope for personal growth and a healthy lifestyle while building their confidence as they master a new skill. Since its inception in 2004, wish for wheels has gifted over 100,000 bikes and connected over 550 companies and organizations and their volunteers to over 400 elementary schools. Our goal is to give a new bike and helmet to every title 1 second grader in the us.
$1,289,620 spentof which $780,427 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,289,620.
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 2022 to 2023, from $570k to $957k (+68%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Wish for Wheels Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Greg Greenwood
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $31k → $219k.
14 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Wish for Wheels Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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
Wish for Wheels Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 Wish for Wheels Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 83% · 2019 62% · 2020 20% · 2021 59% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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
28% of Wish for Wheels Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
50% of Wish for Wheels Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $736k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Wish for Wheels Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Wish for Wheels 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Wish for Wheels 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 Wish for Wheels Inc?
- Wish for Wheels Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,760 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($228,755). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wish for Wheels Inc have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $1,485,760 in grants to Wish for Wheels Inc, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wish for Wheels Inc?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $228,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wish for Wheels Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 60 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