[2][3] Additional start-up support came from a portion of approximately $23,000 that Yanov won as a contestant on the television game show Wheel of Fortune.

[7] By 2008, the organization had grown to serve 100 students a year, with 50 alumni of the program who had graduated from four-year colleges throughout the United States.

[8] In addition, through early 2013, the organization has distributed over $1 million in scholarships to students attending the University of California, San Diego, primarily for summer immersion programs.

[15] Reality Changers has received visits from former head of the U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan, and former president of Mexico Vicente Fox.

[10] Fox has stated that he wishes to copy the blueprint established by Reality Changers in Mexico, working with the group's leadership.