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Filing year 2023

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA

Oakland, California·EIN 94-2958481·NTEE P20 · Human Services·3
Total revenue
$7.8M
Total assets
$10.3M
Total expenses
$7.9M
Reported officers
35
Mission

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

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Chief Executive Officer
$306k
$333k
Base
$282k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$12k
COO (thru 1/31/24)
$190k
$207k
Base
$173k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
VP Corp Development (thru 7/12/2024)
vice president
$188k
$205k
Base
$172k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
Chief Development Officer
$174k
$190k
Base
$161k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$7k
VP Marketing & Communications
vice president
$168k
$182k
Base
$147k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$9k
VP of Programs
vice president
$162k
$177k
Base
$146k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Senior Major Gifts Officer
highest compensated employee
$142k
$154k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 28 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Human Services

Down 2%
from 2022

From $314k in 2022 to $306k in 2023.

$314k
2022
$306k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 6% in real terms$354k to $333k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$6.5M
$8.2M
2022
$7.8M
$7.9M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Human Services executives earn in California

Comparable human services organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $110,963.

25th percentile
$54k
Median
$110,963
75th percentile
$181k
90th percentile
$270k

These are human services sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 909 organizations across 909 filings (2021 – 2023).

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