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MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC

EIN 58-1799549 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2023
$1,474,962
Expenses 2023
$1,473,043

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E86Z
Classification
1000
Street
6700 BAUM DR STE 7

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

  • See Schedule O

    Expenses $1,151,833 · Grants $889,456 · Revenue $12,175

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Garrett Wagley

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $116,496
    From this org
    $100,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,026
    Hours/week
    40
  • Harry Ledebur

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paula Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jonathon Guthrie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Danny Schaefer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Micah Stockett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ben Herring

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jake Stone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Becca Boyd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Randy Carson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Godbold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jamie Fusaro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Huddleston

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brett Mayes

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul Larkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leslie Consoli

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hayley Relford

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,474,962
    Expenses
    $1,473,043
    Contributions
    $1,460,635
    Grants paid
    $889,456
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,515,931
    Expenses
    $1,463,456
    Contributions
    $1,530,483
    Grants paid
    $749,454

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,155,382
    Expenses
    $997,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $934,524
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $951,490
    Expenses
    $528,248
    Assets (EOY)
    $728,731
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $775,910
    Expenses
    $883,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,744
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $973,288
    Expenses
    $945,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $421,307
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,022,819
    Expenses
    $1,182,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $389,854
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,032,560
    Expenses
    $1,394,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $458,755
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $858,794
    Expenses
    $989,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $549,099
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,099,943
    Expenses
    $1,219,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $778,609
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $909,535
    Expenses
    $943,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $636,350
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $917,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,078

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.