About the Foundation

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts has a simple, yet profoundly important mission: We grant wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions between the ages of 2½ and 18 to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy.

 

Every year, approximately 500 Massachusetts children are newly diagnosed with a serious illness and newly eligible for a wish.  Our ultimate goal is to grant wishes for every medically eligible child in Massachusetts.

 

 

The joy began in 1987, when the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts fulfilled its very first wish: a family trip to York Beach for a little girl with Niemann-Pick Disease.

 

Since that first inspired wish, we have served over 4,000 seriously ill children throughout the Commonwealth, from the Berkshires to the tip of Cape Cod. We have grown from granting a single wish in our first year to serving 339 children annually.

 

The Massachusetts Chapter is a member organization of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, which is comprised of 65 Chapters in the United States and 33 international affiliates on 5 continents. Collectively, we are the largest wish-granting organization in the world.

  

 

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts serves children in all 14 counties across the state.