Real Wishes Foundation

Analysis

Real Wishes Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chandler, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Real Wishes Foundation reported income of $244k and spending of $219k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $77k to $244k (+217%), an average of +78% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 504%. Over the whole period it spent 49% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Real Wishes Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include JLL CMG Foundation ($244k), Jamestown Community Farm Incorporated ($244k) and Richland County Commission on Aging Inc ($244k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% and program service revenue 8.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $485k against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $435k.