In 2016, Special Wants launched a “holiday gift exchange” to help grant wishes for families caring for someone with special needs. It can be expensive to pay for therapies and treatments and Special Wants hoped to alleviate the financial burden around the holidays for families. Since we started, we have granted over 400 wishes! In 2019, we became an official non-profit organization and began accepting donations. 100% of donations go toward granting holiday wishes.

YEAR	# of wishes granted	$ donations recieved
2016	529
2017	1300
2018	1800
2019	2000	$12,486.00
2020	1750	$16,817.52
2021	1381	$27,810.00
2022	2656	$34,401.17
2023	992	$20,279.67
TOTALS	12,408	$111,794.36

Beyond the wishes that Special Wants is able to grant with the donation money referenced above, we have had over $250,000 worth of wishes granted directly by our amazing angels who choose a family to support! We are blessed to have so many angels supporting this special community. We hope you find this website easy to use, and encourage you to share the link with others who may want to consider being an “angel” and grant wishes this year!