Twilight Wish Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731670060
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Doylestown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2152308777
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $653,806
- Expenses
- $796,555
- Assets
- $455,641
- Liabilities
- $10,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- LISA GRAHAM (DIRECTOR)
- KEN LEITH (DIRECTOR)
- ANDREA HOISL (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to honor and enrich the lives of seniors through intergenerationalTwilight Wish celebrations. Our vision is to impact the cultural behavior by inspiring the way our society views aging to make our world a nicer place to age; One Twilight Wish at a time.
What it reported doing in 2024
To bring joy and smiles to our elders during the year through individual wish granting and group celebrations. 994 wishes were granted last fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. 55% or 547 were for Simple Needs, 44% or 437 were for Living Life to the Fullest and 1% or 10 were for Celebrating a Life. Te overall average wish cost is $1,100. Total wishes granted since inception: 7,081.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $732K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 32 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.