Florida · Nonprofit
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,008,381 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($17,326,480). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $72M
What Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc does
Mission
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the year, make-a-wish southern florida delivered life-changing wish experiences to children with critical illnesses through three primary program activities: wish identification, wish fulfillment, and family support.the organization collaborated with medical professionals to identify and qualify eligible children, ensuring access to wishes that provide meaningful emotional and psychological benefits. Its largest program activity focused on the design and fulfillment of personalized wish experiences, with staff and volunteers coordinating all logistical, medical, and experiential elements.the chapter reached significant milestones, including granting its 15,000th wish to gemma and supporting mikayla beatty's wish, which marked walt disney world resort's 170,000th wish granted. In addition, the organization completed 378 wish assists, providing critical on-the-ground support for wishes originating from other chapters.beyond wish fulfillment, the organization provided ongoing engagement and support to wish families. The finker-frenkel wish house further enhances program delivery by creating a dedicated space for wish discovery, family experiences, and volunteer engagement,…
$10,500,730 spentof which $6,174,243 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,500,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $37M to $50M (+35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
108% of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Norman Wedderburn
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.1M.
31 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 62% · 2019 55% · 2020 61% · 2021 58% · 2022 47% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,008,381 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($17,326,480). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $34,008,381 in grants to MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $17,326,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 175 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing