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Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$93MFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$15kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $339k
  • $250k+1 grant · $14M
$177,753
Median grant
1
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER$14,092,429
NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE$177,753
CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS$161,657
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $47.8M → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 13%ACTION FOR HEALTHY KIDS: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $14.1M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $8.5M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $8.0M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $3.9M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $3.4M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $3.3M → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $2.8M → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $204k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $178k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $162k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $157k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $124k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $90k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $86k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $79k → 12%Nebraska Pediatric Practice: $55k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $51k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $45k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $32k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $29k → 12%CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $23k → 12%HUNGER FREE HEARTLAND: $15k → 12%NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: $13k → 12%VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $15k → 12%COMPLETELY KIDS: $10k → 12%LIVE WELL OMAHA: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93M · 3 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$93M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $92M · revenue +93%
  • NP
    NEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $703k · revenue +41%
  • CP
    CHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $623k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +70%
  • AF
    ACTION FOR HEALTHY KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +256%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +69%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
2
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
3
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
4
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
North Platte Nebraska Hospital Corp

To inspire health and healing by putting patients first -- always.

Health
7
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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8
Physicians Clinic Inc

Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…

Health
9
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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10
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
Nebraska Heart Hospital

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nebraska Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $91,831,908 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER+4 more: $1,353,640 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $15,000 · OtherLINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherLIVE WELL OMAHA: $15,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE HEARTLAND: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $26,557 · EducationACTION FOR HEALTHY KIDS: $15,000 · EducationCOMPLETELY KIDS: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$93,185,548Other$60,000Education$41,557Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $91,831,908 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetNEBRASKA PEDIATRIC PRACTICE INC: $703,019 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S PHYSICIANS: $623,437 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $26,557 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR HEALTHY KIDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVE WELL OMAHA: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $12,184 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Sherwood Foundati…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Sherwood FoundationNE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 12 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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