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National Agencies
Wishes for Children and Teens:
- Sunshine Foundation grants wishes to children from 3-18 who have serious, chronic or critical illnesses or disabilities and child who have survived abuse
- Children's Wish Foundation grants wishes to children with life limiting diseases up to the age of 18 (children under 3 or who cannot express their own wish enter a program called Young Minds)
- A Special Wish grants wishes for children with life limiting conditions up to age 21
- Kids Wish Network grants wishes to children 3-18 who have a life limiting condition (have granted many wishes to children with seizures, Down Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy)
- Make-A-Wish grants wishes to children ages 2.5 to 18 who have life limiting diseases and who have not had a prior wish
- The Granted Wish gives wishes to anybody of any age who is in need of a wish
Wishes for Adults:
- Dream Foundation for adults with life limiting conditions
- The Granted Wish gives wishes to anybody of any age who is in need of a wish
- Adult Wish Foundation grants "reasonable" wishes to adults with life limiting diseases
- Twilight Wishes grants wishes for those 68+
- Second Wind Dreams grants wishes to the elderly
- Never Too Late grants wishes to those 65 and up
- The Association of Wish Granting Agencies
- Dream Factory has a number of local chapters granting local children 3-18 who have chronic or life threatening diseases wishes
- Wish Granting Organizations Listings
- Believe in Tomorrow has three adventure programs for bullriding, flying and racing as well as respite and hospital housing.
- Starlight Foundations Great Escapes allows families with a seriously ill child to spent time together away from a hospital
- Give Kids The World grants children with critical illnesses and their families trips to the Central Florida theme parks
- Deliver the Dream creates retreats for families who have a family member with a life threatening disease or disability
- A Warrior Wish grants wishes when someone in the military or their family has a life limiting condition
- Dream A Little designs and install fantasy bedrooms for children with life limiting diseases
- Room to Dream creates custom healing environments in rooms in hospitals and homes for those with chronic illness
- MORGAN Foundation offers financial support for families to get to medical conferences and/or for families who need equipment not covered by other sources of funding
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