Wish Upon a Wedding

Analysis

Wish Upon a Wedding is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2010, 16 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 December 2023, Wish Upon a Wedding reported income of $346k and spending of $617k, spending 178% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $386k to $346k (-10%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wish Upon a Wedding sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Empact West Alabama Inc ($346k), Teddy Bear Den ($346k) and Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program ($346k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $53k (8.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $75k. At year end it held assets of $701k against liabilities of $99k, net assets of $602k. It reported 5 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.