Make a Wish Foundation of New Jersey

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of New Jersey is a registered charity in United States, based in Monroe Township, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 New Jersey reported income of $8.5m and spending of $9.8m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $9.3m to $8.5m (-8.3%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Make a Wish Foundation of New Jersey sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Health Services Corporation ($8.5m), Davos Alzheimers Collaborative Inc ($8.5m) and Western Mass Physician Associates Inc ($8.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $981k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $20.9m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $19.8m. It reported 31 employees.