Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc

Analysis

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1993, 33 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 Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc reported income of $6.7m and spending of $9.9m, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $8.8m to $6.7m (-25%), an average of -6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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 Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Uncompahgre Combined Clinics ($6.7m), Hopespoke ($6.7m) and Clover Fork Outpatient Medical Project Inc ($6.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $316k (3.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.6m. At year end it held assets of $18.1m against liabilities of $3.3m, net assets of $14.8m. It reported 37 employees.