Make a Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Knoxville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1988, 38 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 August 2023, Make a Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $973k to $1.5m (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Make a Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cancer Research Foundation ($1.5m), Sidewalk Advocates for Life ($1.5m) and Pennsylvania Health Access Network ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $106k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $197k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $140k, net assets of $945k. It reported 9 employees.