California · Nonprofit
Wish Upon
Wish Upon (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,967 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($22,401). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Wish Upon does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to bring hope and joy to those who need it most.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our accomplishments in 2024 included: - Donated toys on Christmas to the children and families of the City of Hope Cancer Hospital in Duarte California during our toy giveaway event as well as the childrens Christmas morning wish list.- At the request of the hospital staff, throughout the year we also made special donations of toys to specific children in need.
$19,987 spentof which $15,008 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,987.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $38k (+45%).
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.
100% of Wish Upon’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Wish Upon’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
Wish Upon leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
38% 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 Wish Upon.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Wish Upon draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Wish Upon runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Wish Upon
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 Wish Upon: 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 Wish Upon?
- Wish Upon (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,967 to it, the largest being CARMAX FOUNDATION ($22,401). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wish Upon have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,967 in grants to Wish Upon, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wish Upon?
- CARMAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,401 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wish Upon 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.
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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 2017–2024), 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