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Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
- $67M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $60M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $978,998
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,688,248
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 42
- Total assets, FY2025
- $126M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Make-A-Wish Foundation of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $60M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $52M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $50M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $51M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $54M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $49M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $49M | 2% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $51M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In | $23,140,855 | 9 | 23% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York | $21,641,190 | 9 | 29% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $21,380,468 | 9 | 20% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc | $19,292,736 | 9 | 34% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc | $17,326,480 | 9 | 15% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas | $17,290,383 | 9 | 39% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles | $16,265,601 | 9 | 50% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area | $13,746,446 | 9 | 27% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc | $13,388,445 | 9 | 34% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc | $13,264,185 | 9 | 31% |
Show all 64 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Car Donation Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dutch Bros Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Give Back Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
- How much does Make-A-Wish Foundation of America give?
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of America reported 59 itemized grants totaling $60,305,049, out of $66,860,765 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Make-A-Wish Foundation of America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (98%), International (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are Make-A-Wish Foundation of America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In ($23M), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York ($22M), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc ($21M).
- Does Make-A-Wish Foundation of America fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Make-A-Wish Foundation of America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Car Donation Foundation, Inspire Brands Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Make-A-Wish Foundation of America based?
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is based in AZ.
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