Make a Wish Foundation of Alabama Inc

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of Alabama Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 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 August 2023, Make a Wish Foundation of Alabama Inc reported income of $4.7m and spending of $4.4m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $2.8m to $4.7m (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 83% 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 Alabama Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Touro Infirmary Foundation ($4.7m), Moorings Park Healthy Living Incorporated ($4.7m) and Center of Hope ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $195k (4.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $930k. It paid $4,995 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $657k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 18 employees.