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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA INC

EIN 25-1464177 PITTSBURGH, PA

Revenue 2024
$10,492,562
Expenses 2024
$9,762,717

Program services were 75.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
436 SEVENTH AVENUE

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.

  • In fiscal year 2025, Make-A-Wish removed a mortorium on all international travel and cruise wishes which typically account for about 40 wishes a year. The chapter was able to grant 489 wishes in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2025. Wishes included 47 gift wishes,49 shopping sprees, 226 trips to a Disney resort, 10 play sets or playhouses,41 celebrity wishes, 46 trips to Hawaii,66 trips to a variety of locations. Unique wishes include Lilys wish to visit Williamsburg, VA, Morgans wish for an African Grey Parrot, Jordans wish to meet Jelly Roll, Mayas wish for a wheelchair-accessible backyard makeover, Francis wish to camp at Yosemite and Paisleys wish for a new piano and braille piano music books. Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia has met or exceeded all benchmarks of excellence set forth by its national organization, Make-A-Wish America. These include liquidity, wish growth, wish turnaround, cost per dollar raised and public support growth. The chapter has placed at the top of chapter performance for the last 20+ years. in its category (Large Chapters). Because of its management excellence, the chapter has been given five additional territories to manage by Make-A-Wish America, the first in 2000. The chapter is now helping to plan and finance wishes at other chapters with large wish pipelines to help reduce the wait time for wish chidren and their families.

    Expenses $7,376,773 · Grants $4,835,164

  • Not Applicable

  • Not Applicable

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.

  • Melissa M Anderson CPA

    Director (Exited 8/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Linda Bakhshian

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • David R Berk Esq

    Chair (Exited 8/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Susan Mosites Bicket Esq

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sean Campbell MD

    Director (Exited 8/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dustin DeFranco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Fedan CFA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew George

    Director (Entered 9/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonathan Glance AIA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Guerrini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leon Hoffman CPA

    Treasurer (Exited 8/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Liborio LaRussa MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Douglas R Matthews

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victoria McKenney Esq

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aarthi Murty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ali Parker Esq

    Director (Entered 9/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tracey T Staley

    Vice Chair (Entered 9/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jean Marie Tersak MD

    Director (Exited 8/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christy Totin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Domenic Verdi CPA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Judith A Stone

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $410,767
    From this org
    $376,194
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,573
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $338,482
    Bonus
    $35,000
    Other
    $2,712
    Deferred
    $19,603
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,970
    Filer's total
    $410,767

  • Ann K Hohn

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $262,951
    From this org
    $238,365
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,586
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,260
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $2,105
    Deferred
    $9,565
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,021
    Filer's total
    $262,951

  • Lisa A Macioce CPA

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $172,699
    From this org
    $152,286
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,413
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,033
    Bonus
    $13,500
    Other
    $2,753
    Deferred
    $5,392
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,021
    Filer's total
    $172,699

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,492,562
    Expenses
    $9,762,717
    Contributions
    $9,981,745
    Grants paid
    $4,835,164
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,373,381
    Expenses
    $9,734,281
    Contributions
    $9,812,157
    Grants paid
    $4,822,125
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,378,046
    Expenses
    $9,459,326
    Contributions
    $10,069,936
    Grants paid
    $4,526,599

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
    $9,531,813
    Expenses
    $6,531,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,942,873

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,204,362
    Expenses
    $5,880,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,992,204

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,138,775
    Expenses
    $7,345,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,754,436

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,287,584
    Expenses
    $8,992,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,290,275

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,952,141
    Expenses
    $8,050,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,007,498

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,516,655
    Expenses
    $8,870,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,650,822

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,873,625
    Expenses
    $9,046,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,095,641

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,590,066
    Expenses
    $8,942,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,074,358

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,256,002
    Expenses
    $8,967,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,645,987

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $8,805,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,838,299

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.