Make a Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Miami, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1986, 40 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 August 2023, Make a Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc reported income of $20.3m and spending of $13.4m, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $13.5m to $20.3m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 64% 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 Southern Florida Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Juniper Health Inc ($20.3m), Delta Memorial Hospital ($20.3m) and Transitional Services Inc ($20.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 107% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $518k (3.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.9m. At year end it held assets of $68.0m against liabilities of $7.2m, net assets of $60.8m. It reported 54 employees.