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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC

EIN 36-3422138 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$14,020,422
Expenses 2024
$15,603,529

Program services were 68.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
200 W MONROE ST STE 1801

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 · 2024

Mission

TOGETHER, WE CREATE LIFE-CHANGING WISHES FOR CHILDREN WITH CRITICAL ILLNESSES.

  • 18,000+ LIFE-CHANGING WISHES HAVE BEEN GRANTED SINCE INCEPTION IN 1985 AND 709 WERE GRANTED WITHIN THE LAST YEAR. CHILDREN WITH CRITICAL ILLNESSES RECEIVE A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE THAT DELIVERS A UNIQUE WISH JOURNEY TO THE WISH KID AND THEIR FAMILY, ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE CHILD AND THEIR FAMILY BY PROMOTING RESILIENCE AND INCREASING WELL-BEING.

    Expenses $10,642,138 · Grants $7,861,917 · Revenue $98,775

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Warmuth

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas South

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amanda Worthington

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michele Booth

    CORP DOC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Todd Richards

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Doug Barnard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Darryl Buikema

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Andrew Cardonick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jessi Corcoran

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leonard Dacanay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jerry Darko

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Earl Flack

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matt Hertko

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Aaron Martell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paul Martino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Linda McGovern

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Murphy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jean Niemi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Aletha Noonan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Andy Pasternak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chris Ricuarte

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Sampson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Sbragia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christine Torres

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brennan Warren

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,020,422
    Expenses
    $15,603,529
    Contributions
    $12,138,546
    Grants paid
    $7,861,917
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,582,677
    Expenses
    $15,353,663
    Contributions
    $12,380,068
    Grants paid
    $7,853,324
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,025,992
    Expenses
    $15,051,227
    Contributions
    $12,799,977
    Grants paid
    $7,790,993

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
    $12,285,736
    Expenses
    $10,297,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,840,047
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,806,145
    Expenses
    $8,842,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,222,367
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,160,093
    Expenses
    $10,049,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,358,010
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,279,424
    Expenses
    $13,240,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,588,652
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,047,103
    Expenses
    $12,303,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,309,745
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,576,266
    Expenses
    $12,069,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,515,184
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,004,790
    Expenses
    $12,147,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,568,589
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,597,871
    Expenses
    $11,372,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,120,006
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,543,282
    Expenses
    $11,151,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,677,367
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $10,176,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,451,248

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.