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A WISH COME TRUE INC

EIN 05-0398808 COVENTRY, RI

Revenue 2024
$1,187,232
Expenses 2024
$888,604

Program services were 78.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
6 JEFFERSON DR

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

OUR MISSION IS WE GRANT WISHES AND WE PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES THAT HAVE A CHILD, AGES 3-18, STRUGGLING WITH A LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND, CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MA AND EASTERN CONNECTICUT.IN 2022, OUR MISSION EXPANDED TO INCLUDE EMBRACING THE FAMILY ALONG THIS CHALLENGING JOURNEY. WE PROVIDE FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO FAMILIES IN CRISIS, AS WELL AS HOLIDAY AND BIRTHDAY SUPPORT TO THOSE IN NEED. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE PROVIDED GAS PASSES AND GROCERY CARDS TO MEET BASIC NEEDS WHILE THE FAMILY STRIVES TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GRANTING WISHES AND EMBRACING FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN THAT HAVE LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES IN RI, MA AND CONN.

  • A WISH COME TRUE GRANTED 28 WISHES TO CHILDREN WITH LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES THROUGHOUT RHODE ISLAND AND SE MASSACHUSETTS. WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE AN INCREIBLE IMPACT ON 139 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY MEMBERS.THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM IS TO BRING JOY, HOPE, AND HEALING INTO THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WE SERVE THROUGH THE WISH GRANTING PROCESS AND HARDSHIP ASSISTANCE.

    Expenses $696,605 · Grants $205,127

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • PAULA PAIS-LEACH

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • AMY PARKER ESQ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SEAN FINNEGAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • RON VOLPE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JEFF BECKWITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SEAN CAREY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN CARVALHO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL FINNEGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRACY WALSH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COLLEEN DUFFY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL POIRIER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EVAN FINNEGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RYAN FINNEGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRUCE MESSIER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVEN NAPOLILLO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY KATE O'LEARY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,266
    From this org
    $124,979
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,287
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,187,232
    Expenses
    $888,604
    Contributions
    $579,537
    Grants paid
    $205,127
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $371,948
    Expenses
    $217,497
    Contributions
    $435,176
    Grants paid
    $71,817

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
    $559,295
    Expenses
    $620,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $624,580

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $665,532
    Expenses
    $625,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $637,519

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,868
    Expenses
    $718,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $688,543

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,826
    Expenses
    $564,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,203

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,158
    Expenses
    $601,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $605,815

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $452,044
    Expenses
    $533,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $686,231

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $496,297
    Expenses
    $536,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,216

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $515,428
    Expenses
    $623,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $832,230

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $848,945
    Expenses
    $683,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $866,454

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,284
    Expenses
    $722,906
    Assets (EOY)
    $739,825

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