Washington · Nonprofit
WISHING WELL FOUNDATION
WISHING WELL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,602 to it, the largest being KELLER WILLIAMS PUGET SOUND CARES ($101,561). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $726k
- Net assets
- $320k
What Wishing Well Foundation does
Mission
To provide the clothing, supplies and experiences unavailable to most foster youth and to retain quality foster homes in pierce county by addressing financial barriers to accepting foster placements.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the Wishing Well Foundation served over 1,000 youths. Foster parents/caregivers received education, support and referrals to community resources that allowed them to continuing fostering children. We assisted foster youths shopping for clothing at the ww, children received beds/dressers, or household items, youths received laptops, youths were granted little wishes funds for sports, music, or other enrichment activities, high school graduates received grad baskets and gift cards, youths were provided with backpacks, school supplies, and winter coats. Ww hosted 18 monthly events for foster youth and their families (rainiers game, halloween dance, movie night, etc). We also honored social workers in march and foster parents in may with treats and recognition for their hard work. We provided youth aged 18-21 in efc (extended foster care) with financial support totaling $52,000 to assist with rent, car repairs, work related needs (work boots, scrubs, etc). The wwf has put more emphasis on serving pierce county efc (extended foster care) youth 18-21 by providing housing, vehicle, and food assistance with the goal of keeping this age group out of homelessness.
$175,597 spent$11,443 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $175,597.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $300k to $370k (+23%).
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.
95% of WISHING WELL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
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
Erika Thompson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $46k → $150k.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 WISHING WELL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
WISHING WELL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 WISHING WELL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 14% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 38% — 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
35% of WISHING WELL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
64% of WISHING WELL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
WISHING WELL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WISHING WELL FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: 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 WISHING WELL FOUNDATION?
- WISHING WELL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,602 to it, the largest being KELLER WILLIAMS PUGET SOUND CARES ($101,561). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISHING WELL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $725,602 in grants to WISHING WELL FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISHING WELL FOUNDATION?
- KELLER WILLIAMS PUGET SOUND CARES is the largest funder on record, with $101,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISHING WELL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 40 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