Maryland · Nonprofit
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC (Maryland) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,824,474 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($13,264,185). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 132
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc does
Mission
The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$4,198,643 spentof which $2,787,474 as grants$12,150 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,198,643.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.6M to $7.2M (+30%).
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 8% · 2022 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lesli Creedon
President & CEO
Board chair
Jason Pappas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 45 funders, grant income fell $3.8M → $2.4M.
21 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 58% · 2019 62% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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
39% of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC 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 THE MID-ATLANTIC INC?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC (Maryland) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,824,474 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($13,264,185). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $24,824,474 in grants to MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC?
- MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $13,264,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 132 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