Making Every Wish Count for Our Seniors
Our goal is to ensure that no dream goes unfulfilled and we invite you to be a part of that journey.


Changing Lives, One Twilight Wish At A Time
In 2003, founder Cass Forkin was having lunch with her daughter at a diner in Bucks County, Pennsylvania when she noticed a group of elderly women counting out their change to pay for their buffet lunch. As a gesture of kindness, Cass anonymously paid their bill. The women, grateful and touched by this generosity, insisted their waitress tell them who paid their bill. When the waitress pointed to Cass, the women came to her table and asked her to stand. One of the women hugged Cass and said, “we didn’t know there were people like you anymore.”
Cass could not get those words out of her head and realized there was no organization in our country to make wishes come true for seniors, to make them feel thanked and remembered. These women’s gratitude for such a simple gesture inspired her to found Twilight Wish Foundation later that year with a check for $711 that she had just received from her father’s life insurance policy. At the time, Twilight Wish was the first national nonprofit focused on granting wishes to senior citizens.
Fast forward to today, and Twilight Wish remains at the forefront of wish granting organizations helping older adults, with over 7,100 wishes granted across the U.S. Every wish we grant has a story behind it: a story of a life well-lived but with a dream not yet realized. We are privileged to make those dreams come true and share those stories with the world. And by sharing those stories, we are helping to inspire a culture that values and respects our senior population.
“It is a breathtaking thing to be the founder of an organization that brings such incredible, wonderous beauty to this world.” ~ Cass Forkin, founder
What We Do
Since our founding in 2003, our goal has been to make the world a nicer place to age, one Twilight Wish at a time. A Twilight Wish granted recognizes seniors for all that they have done throughout their lives and shows them they are appreciated and of value to society. Wishes can connect a senior to many things: a lost passion such as getting their book published; people they haven’t seen in years such as siblings separated for over ten years being reunited in their 90s; and rediscovering their purpose in life such as returning to the classroom to read to students one more time. Every wish we grant is helping to build a culture that values and respects our senior population.

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As little as $25 can help make a senior’s Twilight Wish come true.
