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Wishes Wonders and Kids

Raise funds and provide joy through "wishes" to children with life-threatening medical diseases

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$799kYouth Development$84kHuman Services$70kAnimals$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $87,762, the rows itemized in this filing. The $119,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,999 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$19,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA INC$50,000
SUSAN AND CHARLES BERGHOFF FOUNDATION$19,750
THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COOKE COUNTY INC$18,012
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $154k → 11%SUSAN AND CHARLES BERGHOFF FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%RANCH HAND RESCUE: $10k → 8%MAKE-A-WISH OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA INC: $200k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $24k → 11%GEARY GIRLS RANCH NORTH: $30k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $195k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $144k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA INC: $50k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20k → 11%THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COOKE COUNTY INC: $18k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $35k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $12k → 11%GEARY GIRLS RANCH - NORTH: $10k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $10k → 11%GEARY GIRLS RANCH - NORTH: $10k → 13%GEARY GIRLS RANCH - NORTH: $10k → 13%GEARY GIRLS RANCH - NORTH: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$913k · 5 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$913k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+210%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $298k · revenue +41%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +87%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $230k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RH
    Ranch Hands Rescuegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +210%
  • SD
    SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +1%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Wishing Chair Foundation
Education
2
Boys Girls Club
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3
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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4
Diamond Wishes Childrens Charity
Human Services
5
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Human Services
6
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinoi

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as caring, productive and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cascade County

Enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens

Youth Development
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
9
Boys & Girls Clubs of America

The mission of the organization is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, boys and girls clubs of america, a d.c. corporation that was congressionally chartered in 1956 ("boys & girls clubs of america")…

Youth Development
10
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County Ny Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of suffolk county, ny creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
11
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
12
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Colorado

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; the most unlike its peers is Ranch Hands Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $297,575 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $230,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS+1 more: $18,012 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $250,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE T…SUSAN AND CHARLES BERGHOFF FOUNDATION: $19,750 · HealthSUSAN AND CHARLES BERGHOFF FOUN…GEARY GIRLS RANCHNORTH dba GEARY FOSTER FOUNDATIONS: $69,960 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $65,579 · Youth DevelopmentRanch Hands Rescue: $10,000 · AnimalsSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $1,220 · Recreation & Sports
Other$545,587Health$269,750Housing & Shelter$69,960Youth Development$65,579Animals$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,220

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $297,575 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $250,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $230,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGEARY GIRLS RANCHNORTH dba GEARY FOSTER FOUNDATIONS: $69,960 over 5y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $65,579 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUSAN AND CHARLES BERGHOFF FOUNDATION: $19,750 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COOKE COUNTY INC: $18,012 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $1,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wishes Wonders and Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wishes Wonders and Kids. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wishes Wonders and Kids?

    Find your warmest path to Wishes Wonders and Kids through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $52k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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