An Elderly Wish Foundation

Analysis

An Elderly Wish Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Antioch, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 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, An Elderly Wish Foundation reported income of $77k and spending of $40k, leaving 48% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $43k to $77k (+81%), an average of +81% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, An Elderly Wish Foundation sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Research Foundation for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer Inc ($77k), Building Futures Inc ($77k) and Forsight Foundation Inc ($77k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% of the total. At year end it held assets of $199k against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $177k.