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FRIENDS FOR WISHES

EIN 47-2156320 COLDSPRING, TX

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Revenue 2025
$175,614
Expenses 2025
$173,018

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P12
Classification
1000
Street
233 NATURE CREEK RD

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 · 2025

Mission

Raising money to put smiles on faces and grant wishes to children with life threatening medical conditions at Make-A-Wish.

  • Friends for Wishes is a volunteer organization raising funds to upport the Make-A-Wish Foundation in their efforts to grant as many wishes as possible to eligible kids.

    Expenses $150,000 · Grants $150,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alan Higginbotham

    CHARIMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judy Wirzberg

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gail Hanna

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Hargrave

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brandon Walker

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Townsend

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Billy Stark

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Larsen

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kate Bott

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Johnny Flores

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerry French

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Gibson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Hawkins

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Hoffart

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eddie Hudson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jewel Mitchell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Norman Walker

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $175,614
    Expenses
    $173,018
    Contributions
    $147,189
    Grants paid
    $150,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $225,551
    Expenses
    $213,675
    Contributions
    $172,359
    Grants paid
    $190,265
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $216,730
    Expenses
    $207,080
    Contributions
    $148,311
    Grants paid
    $180,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $125,356
    Expenses
    $125,991
    Contributions
    $94,763
    Grants paid
    $110,000

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
    $125,245
    Expenses
    $108,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,600

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $89,259
    Expenses
    $93,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,713

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $154,723
    Expenses
    $155,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,855

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $166,192
    Expenses
    $166,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,987

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Lynn Smith
Mailing address
22839 Powell House LaneKaty TX 77449

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.