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MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,349,653 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($9,940,664). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.8M
Revenue FY2025
56
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
28/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

Against its field

MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2018 Revenue 125 ($5.2M) Expenses 108 ($5.5M) Net assets 95 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 116 ($4.8M) Expenses 129 ($6.6M) Net assets 99 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 149 ($6.2M) Expenses 94 ($4.8M) Net assets 127 ($7.6M)2022 Revenue 183 ($7.6M) Expenses 129 ($6.6M) Net assets 131 ($7.9M)2023 Revenue 140 ($5.8M) Expenses 157 ($8.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2024 Revenue 147 ($6.1M) Expenses 95 ($4.9M) Net assets 121 ($7.2M)2025 Revenue 163 ($6.8M) Expenses 99 ($5.1M) Net assets 151 ($9.1M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (99)Net assets (151)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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$959k
17
$332k
18
$1.8M
20
$1.4M
21
$976k
22
$2.2M
23
$1.3M
24
$1.7M
25
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $873k → $1.8M.

17 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA.

80%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 84% · 2019 76% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 75% · 2023 83%growing more concentrated.

“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

45% of MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
CA
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
TX

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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 56 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 18%Fundraising 18%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NV
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: 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 NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA?
MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,349,653 to it, the largest being MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($9,940,664). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA have?
IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $12,349,653 in grants to MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA?
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $9,940,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56funders 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