Make a Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered

Analysis

Make a Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered is a registered charity in United States, based in Ridgeland, MS. 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 (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 Mississippi Chartered reported income of $3.4m and spending of $2.6m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $3.4m (+54%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 73% 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 Mississippi Chartered sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clinica Esperanza Hope Clinic ($3.4m), Collis P & Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital Trust ($3.4m) and CNS Nursing Home Care Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $241k (9.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $440k. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $527k, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 14 employees.