Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,023,318 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($8,652,449). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc does
Mission
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fiscal year 2025, Make-A-Wish removed a mortorium on all international travel and cruise wishes which typically account for about 40 wishes a year. The chapter was able to grant 489 wishes in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2025. Wishes included 47 gift wishes,49 shopping sprees, 226 trips to a Disney resort, 10 play sets or playhouses,41 celebrity wishes, 46 trips to Hawaii,66 trips to a variety of locations. Unique wishes include Lilys wish to visit Williamsburg, VA, Morgans wish for an African Grey Parrot, Jordans wish to meet Jelly Roll, Mayas wish for a wheelchair-accessible backyard makeover, Francis wish to camp at Yosemite and Paisleys wish for a new piano and braille piano music books. Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia has met or exceeded all benchmarks of excellence set forth by its national organization, Make-A-Wish America. These include liquidity, wish growth, wish turnaround, cost per dollar raised and public support growth. The chapter has placed at the top of chapter performance for the last 20+ years. in its category (Large Chapters). Because of its management excellence, the chapter has been given five additional territories to manage by…
$7,376,773 spentof which $4,835,164 as grants100% of program spendingNot Applicable
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The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,376,773.
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.
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 $6.8M to $11M (+63%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Judith A Stone
President & CEO
Board chair
David R Berk Esq
Chair (Exited 8/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.7M.
28 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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 Greater PA and West Virginia Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 Greater PA and West Virginia Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 67% · 2019 64% · 2020 66% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 52% — 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
34% of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia 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 Greater PA and West Virginia Inc draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Organizations like Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia 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 Greater PA and West Virginia Inc?
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,023,318 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($8,652,449). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $14,023,318 in grants to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $8,652,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 136 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