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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 168 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,828,870 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($17,326,480). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$23M
Revenue FY2024
168
Funders on record
$34M
Grants received
$72M
Net assets
96/168 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

Against its field

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 107 ($15M) Expenses 130 ($11M) Net assets 128 ($25M)2019 Revenue 95 ($13M) Expenses 145 ($12M) Net assets 151 ($29M)2020 Revenue 101 ($14M) Expenses 95 ($7.9M) Net assets 188 ($36M)2021 Revenue 115 ($16M) Expenses 129 ($11M) Net assets 235 ($45M)2022 Revenue 144 ($20M) Expenses 117 ($9.7M) Net assets 276 ($53M)2023 Revenue 143 ($20M) Expenses 161 ($13M) Net assets 315 ($61M)2024 Revenue 164 ($23M) Expenses 178 ($15M) Net assets 371 ($72M)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (178)Net assets (371)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.8M
17
$4.3M
18
$1.4M
19
$6.4M
20
$5.4M
21
$11M
22
$6.8M
23
$8.4M
24
7.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.1M.

30 of 168 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: $1.2M 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 168 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.

51%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

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; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 81% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 23 states in all.

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 168 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 12%Fundraising 19%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

FL

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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 168 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,828,870 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($17,326,480). 96 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 168 organizations giving $33,828,870 in grants to MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC, 96 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 168funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing