Friends Are by Your Side Inc Wigs and Wishes

Analysis

Friends Are by Your Side Inc Wigs and Wishes is a registered charity in United States, based in Sewell, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2014, 12 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, Friends Are by Your Side Inc Wigs and Wishes reported income of $557k and spending of $476k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $275k to $557k (+102%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Friends Are by Your Side Inc Wigs and Wishes sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 76th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New York City Hemophilia Chapter ($557k), Pregnancy Center Inc ($557k) and Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation ($557k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m.