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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OHIO KENTUCKY AND INDIANA INC

EIN 34-1471131 COLUMBUS, OH

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Revenue 2024
$18,472,500
Expenses 2024
$21,323,483

Program services were 69.5% 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
2545 FARMERS DR STE 300

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CREATES LIFE-CHANGING WISHES FOR CHILDREN WITH CRITICAL ILLNESSES.

  • IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, 1,052 HEARTFELT WISHES WERE GRANTED TO CHILDREN IN OHIO, KENTUCKY & INDIANA AND SINCE INCEPTION IN 1983, A TOTAL OF 23,024 WISHES HAVE BEEN GRANTED. TOTAL WISHES GRANTED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR WERE $12,884,926 OF THIS AMOUNT, $1,556,094 WAS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS VENDORS AND PROVIDED IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS SUCH AS TRAVEL AND TRAVEL SERVICES, TRANSPORTATION, LODGING, AND OTHER SERVICES AND USE OF FACILITIES TO COMPLETE A CHILD'S WISH. FOR FINANCIAL STATEMENT PURPOSES, THESE AMOUNTS ARE INCLUDED AS CONTRIBUTIONS REVENUE AND GRANTED WISH EXPENSE. FOR FORM 990, HOWEVER, THE IRS REQUIRES THAT THE $1,556,094 OF CONTRIBUTED SERVICES AND USE OF FACILITIES BE EXCLUDED FROM BOTH REVENUE AND EXPENSE.

    Expenses $14,818,346 · Grants $11,328,832 · Revenue $22,775

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.

  • Kara Trott

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brent Bahnub

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Barbara Hess

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff McFarland

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Bear

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jaynel Christensen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alessandro Ciaffoncini

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jason Fisher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Frank Gallucci

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anita Harris-Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jackie Hausfield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paul Haut

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Courtney Hessenauer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brian Hodges

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dave Hooper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Erika Jurrens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Shyam Karunakaran

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kelly Keefe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paul Loub

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 4/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Elaine Mardis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jessica Nickloy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kirsten Park

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Payne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Wilkinson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas Williams

    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
    $18,472,500
    Expenses
    $21,323,483
    Contributions
    $17,889,941
    Grants paid
    $11,328,832
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,580,467
    Expenses
    $20,338,112
    Contributions
    $21,756,178
    Grants paid
    $10,320,989
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,346,875
    Expenses
    $20,692,282
    Contributions
    $18,816,250
    Grants paid
    $11,715,961

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
    $17,495,936
    Expenses
    $16,631,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,633,328
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,599,516
    Expenses
    $12,164,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,872,839
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,445,331
    Expenses
    $12,957,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,244,363
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,530,633
    Expenses
    $15,409,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,695,072
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,272,795
    Expenses
    $15,430,924
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,898,664
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,253,110
    Expenses
    $10,970,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,900,980
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,461,959
    Expenses
    $16,884,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,076,501
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,654,668
    Expenses
    $15,773,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,342,101
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,450,696
    Expenses
    $13,051,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,210,966
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $11,145,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,459,184

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

Where these grants went next →

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.