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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Health, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, Patient & Family Support, Pediatrics
Mission: The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. The Foundation believes that the fulfillment of a wish creates a magical moment for children, families, and everyone involved in a wish. Therefore, it is the Foundation's vision that people everywhere will share the power of a wish.
Programs: We grant wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. In the fiscal year ended august 31, 2012, our chapter granted 20 wishes. Total wishes granted for the fiscal year were $237,259. Of this amount, $53,548 was contributed by various vendors who provided in-kind contributions such as travel and travel services, transportation, lodging, and other services and use of facilities to complete a child's wish for financial statement purposes, these amounts are included as contribution revenue and granted wish expenses. For form 990, however, the irs requires the $53,548 of contributed services and use of facilities be excluded from both revenue and expenses.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.