Wheels of Progress Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611605910
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3476453265
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,750
- Expenses
- $24,099
- Assets
- $606,082
- Liabilities
- $571,988
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE GALLEGO (President & CEO)
- ROSEMARIE MURRAY (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MARGARET MARK (Treasurer)
- GEORGE GALLEGO (President & CEO)
- ROSEMARIE MURRAY (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wheels of Progress Inc. is a New York City-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities and seniors maintain their freedom, independence, dignity, stability, and connection to community.Our mission is to equip individuals with the knowledge, tools, training, peer support, and community relationships they need to navigate daily life, manage their benefits, build financial stability, access workforce opportunities, understand their rights, and participate more fully in civic and community life.Wheels of Progress focuses on practical, community-based education, empowerment, and relationship-building. We assist members in understanding and managing essential benefits and systems, including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security benefits such as SSI and SSDI, food assistance programs, housing-related supports, transportation resources, and other public benefits that directly affect their ability to live independently.Through workshops, one-on-one guidanc
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to create affordable, accessible, supportive housing and transformative environments for people living with physical disabilities. - In the past 5 years, Wheels of Progress has been working with private corporations as well as New York City and New York State agencies to create ways to make more affordable and accessible housing available for people with physical disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 65.2%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -776.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 25.15; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 65.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.