Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont & Northeast New York Inc

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont & Northeast New York Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelburne, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 August 2023, Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont & Northeast New York Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.4m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+29%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont & Northeast New York Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc ($1.5m), Variety of Greater Kansas City Tent 8 ($1.5m) and Jewish Orthodox Womens Medical Association Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $117k (8.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $251k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $3.3m. It reported 5 employees.