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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID- SOUTH INC

EIN 62-1253153 MEMPHIS, TN

Revenue 2024
$5,408,189
Expenses 2024
$5,520,533

Program services were 73.8% 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
5100 POPLAR AVENUE

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

THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH CREATES LIFE-CHANGING WISHES FOR CHILDREN WITH CRITICAL ILLNESSES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TOGETHER WE CREATE LIFE-CHANGING WISHES FOR CHILDREN WITH CRITICAL ILLNESSES.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $4,071,721 · Grants $2,741,445 · Revenue $2,475

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.

  • JULIE FARRELL

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHA TOOHIG

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICK CASSELLA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM SLIKER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE ALLBRITTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HUGH BOONE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MASON BUBBA EZZELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REGGIE GARNER

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 9/10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHARON HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHARI JEFFERIES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARIN JONES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBBY KILPATRICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSICA LAIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE LYONS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEE MCCALLUM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JT NOVARESE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK STALLWORTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENT THOMPSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CASEY TANSEY

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $150,476
    From this org
    $128,490
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,986
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $125,840
    Bonus
    $2,650
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,012
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,974
    Filer's total
    $150,476

  • CHRISTY KRUEGER

    VP OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $115,644
    From this org
    $100,802
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,842
    Hours/week
    50

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
    $5,408,189
    Expenses
    $5,520,533
    Contributions
    $5,197,854
    Grants paid
    $2,741,445
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,389,176
    Expenses
    $5,350,881
    Contributions
    $4,954,844
    Grants paid
    $2,732,333
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,010,447
    Expenses
    $4,769,629
    Contributions
    $4,629,825
    Grants paid
    $2,402,740

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
    $4,506,221
    Expenses
    $3,884,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,336,419

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,943,183
    Expenses
    $2,911,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,531,176

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,724,076
    Expenses
    $3,815,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,863,365

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,499,223
    Expenses
    $4,561,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,521,831

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,384,520
    Expenses
    $4,482,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,714,273

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,287,254
    Expenses
    $4,427,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,478,783

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,234,150
    Expenses
    $4,156,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,111,365

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,677,831
    Expenses
    $4,081,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,019,108

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,434,783
    Expenses
    $3,283,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,935,525

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,347,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,652,112

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