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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

EIN 56-1492432 WAXHAW, NC

Revenue 2024
$7,184,850
Expenses 2024
$7,481,220

Program services were 76.7% 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
6324 FAIRVIEW ROAD

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.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $5,735,905 · Grants $3,832,958

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • WENDY BARNES

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVE BARUCH

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TODD NUNN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETER SMUL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEN STICKNEY

    GOVERNANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PUNEET CHANDHOK

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELA CUMMINGS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRAIG HARR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TED HARRINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMITRA HILDEBRAND-JONES

    DIRECTOR (THRU 2/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE OHMSTEDE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY KATZEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THERESA MCCLUSKEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANSLEY MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AJ RATANI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF ROSS

    DIRECTOR (THRU 2/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEIGHA SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALISA STARBUCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SYLVIA STEINHEISER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GLENN TYNAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRENT WALSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERRI ZANDHUIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHERINE JETTON

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $268,700
    From this org
    $237,232
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,468
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $223,431
    Bonus
    $13,801
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,253
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,215
    Filer's total
    $268,700

  • JACQUELINE HOWELLS

    SVP FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $151,990
    From this org
    $132,882
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,108
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $110,782
    Bonus
    $22,100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,088
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,020
    Filer's total
    $151,990

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. 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
    $7,184,850
    Expenses
    $7,481,220
    Contributions
    $6,707,282
    Grants paid
    $3,832,958
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,340,957
    Expenses
    $7,227,705
    Contributions
    $6,863,377
    Grants paid
    $3,720,340
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,280,804
    Expenses
    $7,308,363
    Contributions
    $7,066,875
    Grants paid
    $4,108,113

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
    $5,997,637
    Expenses
    $4,653,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,789,526

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,618,519
    Expenses
    $3,183,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,151,207

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,744,222
    Expenses
    $4,173,467
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,200,149

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,860,922
    Expenses
    $5,511,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,358,174

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,311,705
    Expenses
    $5,620,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,233,470

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,314,366
    Expenses
    $5,313,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,488,131

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,854,009
    Expenses
    $4,732,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,881,870

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,505,927
    Expenses
    $4,061,898
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,130,271

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,103,842
    Expenses
    $3,240,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,451,018

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,770,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,538,196

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.