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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc

Children's wisconsin, provides a comprehensive and integrated pediatric health care model that delivers superior quality and value by offering the best solution for the total health care needs of children within our community, state and region.

$76M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$47M
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$452MHuman Services$58MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$17k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $313k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $804k
  • $250k+3 grants · $75M
$49,874
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC$47,062,650
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INC$15,904,487
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN$11,577,156
DUKE UNIVERSITY$131,268
COLUMBIA ST MARYS HOSPITAL$109,460
SEALS ON WHEELS$102,661
PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATES OF WI LLC$89,073
LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$87,165
HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC$82,851
DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC$80,421
HEALTHY SMILES LLC$68,522
PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC$52,614
OUTREACH 4 HEALTHY TEETH LLC$49,908
NOBLE COMMUNITY CLINICS$49,874
BROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP$33,155
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASCENSION WI FOUNDATION INC: $134k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $57k → 9%OUTREACH 4 HEALTHY TEETH LLC: $50k → 10%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN LLC: $72k → 10%WALWORTH COUNTY: $46k → 10%PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS: $69k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $69k → 10%NOBLE COMMUNITY CLINICS: $50k → 15%LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $87k → 15%DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC: $71k → 17%DENTLWORKS EQUIPMENT CORPORATION: $50k → 8%ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH: $76k → 7%PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS: $85k → 14%OUTREACH 4 HEALTHY TEETH LLC: $49k → 10%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN LLC: $47k → 10%PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS: $55k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $56k → 10%LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT NORTHLAKES COMMUNITY CLINIC: $49k → 15%DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC: $55k → 17%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN LLC: $79k → 14%OUTREACH 4 HEALTHY TEETH LLC: $49k → 10%PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS: $55k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $53k → 10%HEALTHY SMILES LLC: $69k → 11%DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC: $49k → 17%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN LLC: $70k → 14%BROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 10%PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC: $53k → 10%HEALTHY SMILES LLC: $47k → 11%DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC: $49k → 17%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN LLC: $60k → 14%DENTAMED HEALTHCARE LLC: $80k → 17%PREFERRED DENTISTRY ASSOCIATES OF WI LLC: $89k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $281k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $186k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $164k → 17%COLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC: $140k → 17%COLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION: $135k → 17%COLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%SEALS ON WHEELS: $103k → 10%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $63k → 17%SEALS ON WHEELS: $79k → 10%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $55k → 17%SEALS ON WHEELS: $75k → 10%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $53k → 17%SEALS ON WHEELS: $59k → 10%SEALS ON WHEELS: $55k → 10%COLUMBIA ST MARYS HOSPITAL: $109k → 17%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$486M · 46 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
9

Total granted

$486M
$26M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-17%

Still filing today

48%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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 OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155M · revenue +14%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $133M · revenue +96%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $133M · revenue +61% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26M · revenue +78% · 32% of their budget
  • AA
    ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $76k · revenue -24%
  • DE
    DENTLWORKS EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Lake Area Free Clinic Inc

The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.

Health
2
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
3
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
4
Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc

To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…

Health
5
Heart City Health Center Inc

Heart city health center, inc. (heart city) is a non-profit, federally qualified health center (fqhc) providing affordable, high quality, primary health, behavioral health, dental and pharmaceutical care to residents of elkhart and…

Health
6
Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated

The full mission of the community health center of franklin county, inc is to maintain a community owned, responsive health center which promotes public health and well-being, and provides comprehensive preventative and primary care…

Health
7
Community Health Clinic Inc

Founded on the principle of service, in cooperation with the local amish community, the mission of the community health clinic (chc) is to provide excellent and affordable medical and dental care consistent with the needs of the amish,…

Health
8
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
9
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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10
Group Health Inc

Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

Health
11
Grace Health Inc

To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.

Health
12
Charles River Community Health Inc

To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthnet of Rock County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Professional Dental Hygiene Express Inc. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
24/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $154,607,958 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $133,042,781 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INCCHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INC: $132,706,735 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $26,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC+12 more: $1,412,687 · HealthCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $58,361,346 · OtherCHILDREN'S SE…+33 more: $4,040,025 · Other+33 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $829,968 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $373,624 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $74,971 · Education+1 more: $32,136 · EducationASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $520,587 · PhilanthropyAMERY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $17,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$447,770,161Other$62,401,371Education$1,310,699Philanthropy$520,587Recreation & Sports$40,000Food & Nutrition$17,000

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 OF WISCONSIN INC: $154,607,958 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $133,042,781 over 5y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INC: $132,706,735 over 8y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $58,361,346 over 8y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $26,000,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $829,968 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $597,567 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $520,587 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetPROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC: $378,819 over 7y, 48% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $373,624 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $239,235 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCATALPA HEALTH INC: $208,162 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $131,382 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S HOSPITAL MILWAUKEE INC: $109,460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $84,737 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $84,286 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LOS CAMPESINOS INC: $81,945 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $76,382 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $74,971 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUST KIDS DENTAL INC: $70,687 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $50,087 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Nicholas Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is: $33,528 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $32,136 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENOSHA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $23,868 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $6,791 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CATALPA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA ST MARY'S HOSPITAL MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CLINICA DE LOS CAMPESINOS INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds JUST KIDS DENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗

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.

Greater Wisconsin Age…Delta Dental of Wisco…The Roots and Wings F…The Medical College o…Americares Foundation…Community Foundation …Otto Bremer TrustDirect ReliefGreen Bay Packers Fou…Wisconsin Primary Hea…Security Health Plan …The Chicago Community…
Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources IncWI36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Americares Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Direct Relief · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association Inc · Security Health Plan of Wisconsin Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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 of Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 57 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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