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Children's Heart Foundation

The mission of the CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION (chf) is to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects (chds) by funding the most promising research.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Children's Heart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$1.6M63%
FY20236$1.2M17%
FY20225$1.2M60%
FY20214$754k50%
FY20204$734k25%
FY20196$1.2M67%
FY20184$529k50%
FY20177$1.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$7.2MScience & Tech$1.2MEducation$454k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MD
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heart Association Inc$2,904,55880%
Regents of the University of Michigan$742,5003n/a
Emory University$600,00020%
Children's Hospital Corporation$399,66720%
University of Minnesota$300,0001n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$300,00010%
American Academy of Pediatrics$245,00070%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$200,00010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$200,0001n/a
Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System$200,00010%
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All grantees of Children's Heart Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heart Association Inc$2,904,55880%
Regents of the University of Michigan$742,5003n/a
Emory University$600,00020%
Children's Hospital Corporation$399,66720%
University of Minnesota$300,0001n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$300,00010%
American Academy of Pediatrics$245,00070%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$200,00010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$200,0001n/a
Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System$200,00010%
University of California San Francisco$194,1531n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center$142,50010%
University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc$98,20510%
University of Pittsburgh$60,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Children's Heart Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,904,558 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $399,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Tech Research Corporation: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatrics: $245,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $142,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $98,205 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About Children's Heart Foundation

How much does Children's Heart Foundation give?
Children's Heart Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,780,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Children's Heart Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (81%), Science & Tech (14%), Education (5%).
Who are Children's Heart Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Heart Association Inc ($2.9M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($743k), Emory University ($600k).
Does Children's Heart Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Children's Heart Foundation based?
Children's Heart Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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