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Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam
Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam (GU) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,666 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($366,324). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $428k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam does
Mission
We are a wish granting organization Our mission statement is Together we grant life changing wishes to children with critical illnesses
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Make-a-Wish Foundation of Guam creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. The Foundation granted 10 wishes during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025. The direct cost of the wishes granted for the fiscal year was 84,090. The balance of the expenses included in program services includes personnel costs, office expenses, facilities, rent, professional fees and other expenses.
$192,603 spent$197,585 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $590k to $639k (+8%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 9% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Steven E Tydingco
President CEO
Board chair
Jason Miyahsita
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $52k → $55k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Guam leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Guam.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside GU, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Guam has grown faster than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In GU
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Guam: 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 Guam?
- Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam (GU) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,666 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($366,324). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $427,666 in grants to Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $366,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make-a-Wish Foundation Guam find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in GU. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing