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The Wishlist Network

To ease the day-to-day pressure on distressed familes enduring medical, financial, or other unforseen hardships by offering goods, services and support provided by a community network of business and individual donors. We provide wishes directly to families in need in the community as well as supporting the wish lists of other local…

$157k
Granted FY2018
1
Itemized grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$9k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations The Wishlist Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$6k0%
FY20173$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$12kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thunderridge High School$11,5002n/a
Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force$5,00010%
Peak Abundance$5,0001n/a

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About The Wishlist Network

How much does The Wishlist Network give?
The Wishlist Network reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $156,783 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Wishlist Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (53%), Food & Nutrition (47%).
Who are The Wishlist Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Thunderridge High School ($12k), Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force ($5k), Peak Abundance ($5k).
Does The Wishlist Network fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Wishlist Network based?
The Wishlist Network is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports $47k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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