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WISH FOR OUR HEROES INC

EIN 27-0483869 GREENWOOD, IN

Revenue 2024
$2,442,000
Expenses 2024
$2,488,400

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
164 S PARK BLVD

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

Through the granting of wishes, WISH for OUR HEROES strives to assist military families struggling with burdens caused by deployment, family separation, and the daily strains of military life. By providing transparency for donors and a unique focus on assisting military members not covered by existing government or non-profit channels, WISH for OUR HEROES assists families by providing basic needs. Examples include food, shelter, transportation, child needs, and medical expenses. Walk Among Heroes, a division of Wish for Our Heroes, provides trips for World War II Veterans, Wounded Veterans, and Veterans of other wars to return to battlefields around the world where they fought. The trips provide mental healing for the Veterans, then through their experiences, Walk Among Heroes shares the Veterans' stories and experiences to provide renewed emphasis on history.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Through the granting of wishes, provide basic needs assistance to military personnel and their families. Wish for Our Heroes assists military families with food, shelter, transportation, child needs, medical expenses, mental health needs, and other basic necessities for military and their families. Through Walk Among Heroes, a division of Wish for Our Heroes, World War II Veterans, wounded Veterans, and Veterans from other wars are returned to places where they fought to allow for mental healing and the sharing of experiences and stories. The mission of Walk Among Heroes is to provide mental healing to Veterans who have sacrificed so much for the freedom of our nation, while facilitating a greater understanding of history.

  • WISH for OUR HEROES granted 5,630 wishes for the period ending November 30, 2025. The 5,630 wishes resulted in providing assistance to more than 14,000 individuals associated with the U.S. Military. The grants ranged from basic needs such as food, housing, transportation, child needs, household goods, and basic home expenses, to recreational wishes such as sporting events. Revenue received that is directly programmatic is in kind revenue, which totaled $950,865. Grants were disbursed in 34 of the 50 states.

    Expenses $2,145,000 · Grants $2,145,000 · Revenue $2,145,000

  • Through Wish for Our Heroes' Walk Among Heroes Division, 12 World War II Veterans and their families were returned to Normandy, Bastogne, and other battlefields around the world where they fought. Also, 4 high student ambassadors and their caretakers were provided scholarships, including all travel expenses, to visit Normandy alongside the World War II Veterans

    Expenses $125,000 · Grants $125,000 · Revenue $125,000

  • Wish for Our Heroes Florida Division, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and Burnt Store Marina, FL, granted 163 wishes vcalued at $172,000 to assist Florida military families struggling with basic needs such as food, shelter, transportation, child needs, medical expenses, and other basic necessities.

    Expenses $172,000 · Grants $172,000 · Revenue $172,000

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.

  • Jeffrey A Wells

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Erich Von Orrick

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Anthony Rives

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Michael Denman

    Secretary & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Sharon Teich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $2,442,000
    Expenses
    $2,488,400
    Contributions
    $2,442,000
    Grants paid
    $2,369,745
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,126,465
    Expenses
    $2,034,616
    Contributions
    $1,307,089
    Grants paid
    $1,910,306
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,114,548
    Expenses
    $1,667,789
    Contributions
    $2,079,926
    Grants paid
    $1,546,345

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
    $1,811,976
    Expenses
    $1,573,641
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,716,093

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,377,039
    Expenses
    $1,172,363
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,493,624

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $987,469
    Expenses
    $993,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,288,948

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,760,285
    Expenses
    $1,719,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $831,296

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,935,105
    Expenses
    $1,765,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $762,773

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,003,887
    Expenses
    $2,065,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,906

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,817,481
    Expenses
    $1,621,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $693,651

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,478,685
    Expenses
    $2,204,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $474,206

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.

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.