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MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

EIN 86-0726985 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2023
$15,979,335
Expenses 2023
$16,108,255

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P58Z
Classification
1000
Street
1702 E HIGHLAND AVE STE 305

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 · 2023

Mission

NONE

Activities or mission (Part I)

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

  • AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN OVER 50 COUNTRIES. THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ASSISTANCE TO ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS. THE ASSISTANCE PROVIDED IS INTENDED TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP OUR AFFILIATES, INDIVIDUALLY, AS A NETWORK AND COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO ENSURE THEIR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH, SO TO PROGRESS AND ENHANCE THE NUMBER, THE IMPACT AND THE QUALITY OF WISHES.

    Expenses $12,742,602 · Grants $8,739,567 · Revenue $1,968,386

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • GILLI SINCLAIR

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAYNE MILLARD

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN POLIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATT LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTOR NICHOLS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAMIAN THORNTON

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 11/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH CHONG

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 10/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAIRUS TARAPORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN LAU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATTHIAS CHICKA MORDI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE DENSMORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NINA MALDONADO

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 11/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NIV GARITH

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 10/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TASIA FILIPPATOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUCIANO MANZO

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $286,358
    From this org
    $256,358
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $223,927
    Bonus
    $32,431
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $24,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,000
    Filer's total
    $286,358

  • CARLY GALLI

    VICE-PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY

    Total calculated
    $149,670
    From this org
    $144,980
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,690
    Hours/week
    40

  • SYLVIA HOPKINS

    VICE-PRESIDENT, MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $126,185
    From this org
    $122,117
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,068
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,979,335
    Expenses
    $16,108,255
    Contributions
    $13,835,167
    Grants paid
    $8,739,567
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,240,052
    Expenses
    $12,393,466
    Contributions
    $10,201,744
    Grants paid
    $7,007,523

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,177,730
    Expenses
    $6,205,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,712,353

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,960,773
    Expenses
    $4,792,966
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,646,772

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,593,574
    Expenses
    $8,877,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,040,360

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,706,311
    Expenses
    $8,878,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,602,890

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,648,708
    Expenses
    $7,621,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,230,807

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,783,892
    Expenses
    $7,717,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,338,759

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,224,898
    Expenses
    $7,060,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,566,194

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,475,601
    Expenses
    $6,320,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,230,589

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.