Grant a Wish Fund

Analysis

Grant a Wish Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Sterling Heights, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 April 2024, Grant a Wish Fund reported income of $136k and spending of $125k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from April 2023 to April 2024, income fell from $153k to $136k (-11%), an average of -11% a year. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Grant a Wish Fund sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include First Electric Trust ($136k), Eastside Area Community Foundation Inc ($136k) and Seltzer Family Foundation ($136k).

At year end it held assets of $108k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $108k.