Wheels for Kids

What Wheels for Kids does

Wheels for Kids is a nonprofit charitable organization founded in 2003 that provides wheelchairs and youth services to handicapped and disadvantaged children. According to the primary source material, the organization is based in Tucson, Arizona (though one firmographic record lists Boca Raton) and serves children from low-income and disabled families in the local community through direct service programs, including the provision of wheelchairs to support disabled families. The organization operates with a very small team of 1-10 employees and is funded through grants and donations rather than commercial pricing; its services are delivered to beneficiaries at no cost.

The organization's revenue model is grant- and donation-based, with no commercial pricing, products, or SaaS-style offering. The only disclosed institutional funding source in the input is The Sundt Foundation, which awarded Wheels for Kids a $37,610 quarterly grant in July 2023 and a separate $5,000 funding round in June 2023, alongside seven other Tucson-area charities. No other corporate, foundation, or government funding relationships are documented, and no operating geographies, leadership team, financial statements, or program-scale metrics are disclosed. The organization's website (wheelsforkids.org) returned only a verification/loading page at the time of data collection, limiting additional detail.

Wheels for Kids has no technology product, no proprietary software, no AI/ML components, and no disclosed partnerships beyond its grant relationship with The Sundt Foundation. Its competitive positioning rests on localized community knowledge and direct service delivery in the Tucson market rather than on scale, technology, or distribution advantages.

Name

Wheels for Kids

Website

https://wheelsforkids.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Wheels for Kids is a small Tucson, Arizona-based nonprofit founded in 2003 that provides wheelchairs and youth services to handicapped and disadvantaged children, operating on grants and donations with 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Children's Disability & Youth Services

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Pediatric Rehabilitation & Mobility DME (Adaptive Seating, Pediatric Mobility) (HLAHAMAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Assistive Mobility Device Assessment & Fitting (Walkers, Crutches, Wheelchairs) (EDAKAGAE), Accessibility & Mobility Equipment Provisioning (Car Seats, Harnesses, Securement Systems) (EDAKAOAJ), Physical Disabilities & Mobility Support Childcare (HSAAAIAD)

Keywords

• Wheelchair donation services
• Youth disability support
• Nonprofit children services
• Assistive mobility programs
• Charitable disability aid

Headquarters

HQ city

Boca Raton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Wheels for Kids is a nonprofit organization that provides wheelchairs to handicapped children to support disabled families, alongside broader youth services programs offering essential support, resources, and opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Services are delivered at no cost to beneficiaries and are funded through charitable grants and donations from local foundations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wheelchair Provision for Handicapped Children Free provision of wheelchairs to handicapped children from disadvantaged and disabled families to support mobility and quality of life. Service is funded through charitable grants and donations and delivered at no cost to beneficiary families.
• Youth Services Programs for Disadvantaged Children Programs providing essential support, resources, and opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, including low-income families, aimed at enabling healthy development and well-being. Delivered at no cost to beneficiaries in the Tucson community.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Free Wheelchair Mission: Free Wheelchair Mission distributes free wheelchairs to people with disabilities in developing countries. It is a direct mission-aligned peer to Wheels for Kids, operating a similar donation-funded model that delivers mobility equipment to disadvantaged populations.
• Wheelchair Foundation: Wheelchair Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing free wheelchairs to those in need worldwide. It shares the same core product focus and beneficiary profile (mobility-impaired individuals in low-resource contexts) as Wheels for Kids.
• Variety – the Children's Charity: Variety provides mobility equipment, including wheelchairs, to children with disabilities. It is a directly comparable peer, focused on pediatric beneficiaries and adaptive mobility equipment distributed through a donation-funded model.
• Joni and Friends: Joni and Friends serves people affected by disability worldwide through wheelchairs, disability ministry, and family support. It overlaps directly with Wheels for Kids in distributing wheelchairs to individuals with disabilities, often to children, via charitable channels.
• Chive Charities: Chive Charities funds critical needs—including mobility equipment like wheelchairs—for veterans, first responders, and children with rare medical conditions. It operates with a similar donation-funded model and direct equipment-provision use case as Wheels for Kids.

Broad incumbents

• Muscular Dystrophy Association: MDA is a large, established nonprofit serving individuals with neuromuscular diseases, including children, with funding that supports mobility equipment, care, and research. It serves the same broad pediatric mobility-impairment population as Wheels for Kids but at a national scale with a much wider service portfolio.
• Easterseals: Easterseals provides disability services including mobility assistance, therapies, and equipment to children and adults nationwide. It addresses overlapping beneficiary needs but operates as a broad, multi-service incumbent rather than a focused pediatric wheelchair provider.
• Shriners Children's: Shriners Children's is a large hospital system providing pediatric specialty care including orthopedic and mobility services for disabled children. While it does not focus exclusively on wheelchair distribution, it serves an overlapping pediatric mobility-impairment population and is a major referral channel for adaptive equipment.
• Children's Miracle Network Hospitals: Children's Miracle Network Hospitals funds pediatric medical care, including equipment and mobility aids, at partner hospitals. It is a broader incumbent serving the same beneficiary base of children with medical needs including mobility limitations.

Others

• Ronald McDonald House Charities: RMHC supports families of sick children with housing and services near hospitals, including those receiving mobility-related care. It is thematically adjacent rather than directly comparable—serving overlapping pediatric populations but addressing family support needs rather than equipment provision.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks1 record

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/wheelsforkidsfl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wheels-for-kids

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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