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MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA

EIN 54-1429614 RICHMOND, VA

Revenue 2024
$3,146,364
Expenses 2024
$3,276,487

Program services were 65.9% 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
2810 N PARHAM RD STE 302

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).

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.

  • SCOTT MERITHEW

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL GALLAGHER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL HOWARD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SEAN HICKS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATTHEW T BROWN

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 5/13/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KERRI CARTER MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILL CROPPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOMENICA ESTES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSEY GELFAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT GIBBS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA GRIFFITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR MICHAEL HAINSTOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HUTCHINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHY KEIGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR DANIEL TREY LEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF MARKLIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEREMY OBERHOLTZER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE PRESSENDO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSEPH SCARPA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANNON SHOWALTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEREDITH THROWER

    DIRECTOR (THRU 1/18/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW WEBER

    DIRECTOR (THRU 12/27/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHERI LAMBERT

    PRESIDENT AND CEO THRU 5/23/25

    Total calculated
    $254,630
    From this org
    $213,494
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,136
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,021
    Bonus
    $23,599
    Other
    $874
    Deferred
    $11,114
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,022
    Filer's total
    $254,630

  • KATIE MCGEE

    INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $103,223
    From this org
    $95,095
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,128
    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. 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
    $3,146,364
    Expenses
    $3,276,487
    Contributions
    $3,094,603
    Grants paid
    $1,473,316
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,802,096
    Expenses
    $3,542,168
    Contributions
    $3,703,747
    Grants paid
    $1,767,034
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,399,675
    Expenses
    $2,940,009
    Contributions
    $3,385,757
    Grants paid
    $1,328,439

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.

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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.