Use your time, talent, treasure and heart to be part of a life-changing wish. During this milestone year, every act of support helps bring a spark of hope, joy and strength to a child in our state.
For 40 years, volunteers have been the backbone of making life-changing wishes come true.
Every gift helps bring a child’s one true wish to life at a time when they need it most.
Your community can create something powerful: a turning point in a child’s treatment journey.
For 40 years, Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted life-changing wishes that bring hope, strength and joy to children with critical illnesses and their families. Each wish is more than a joyful moment — it can become a turning point in a child’s treatment journey and a powerful reminder of what is possible when a community comes together.
While our official 40th birthday is in June 2027, we’re celebrating this incredible milestone all year long by honoring the wish families, volunteers, donors, medical professionals, and community partners who have shaped our mission and made more than 5,000 wishes possible across Iowa. This milestone honors the thousands of moments of hope created by people who chose to come together around a child and family when it mattered most.
Our birthday is both a celebration and an invitation. In every community, there is someone who can refer, someone who can volunteer, someone who can give and someone who can spark the next life-changing wish.
After 40 years, one thing is clear: Life-changing wishes happen when communities come together. And the next life-changing wish could begin with you.
4 Decades of Life-Changing Wishes
Make-A-Wish Iowa granted its first wish in 1987.
Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted wishes in all 99 counties in Iowa.
Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted over 5,000 life-changing wishes.
270 kids in Iowa will be eligible for a wish this year