Wheelchairs for Nigeria

Analysis

Wheelchairs for Nigeria is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wheelchairs for Nigeria reported income of $309k and spending of $309k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $243k to $309k (+27%), an average of +6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Wheelchairs for Nigeria sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Haiti ($308k), Zimele USA ($309k) and The Charis Project ($308k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $32k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $32k.