Wishes Can Happen Inc

Analysis

Wishes Can Happen Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Canton, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1984, 42 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wishes Can Happen Inc reported income of $389k and spending of $602k, spending 155% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $308k to $389k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wishes Can Happen Inc sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minority Health Consortium ($389k), Isthmus Project Inc ($389k) and Holy Name of Jesus Hospital Trust ($388k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $30k. At year end it held assets of $452k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $452k. It reported 1 employees.