Wishlist Foundation

Analysis

Wishlist Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Naperville, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wishlist Foundation reported income of $57k and spending of $53k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $60k to $57k (-3.9%), an average of -3.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wishlist Foundation sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 22nd percentile, and in the 24th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Place of Possibility Inc ($57k), Carroll Electrics People for People Fund ($57k) and Gateway Area Foundation ($57k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% of the total. At year end it held assets of $45k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $45k.