· Public charity
Child's Play
CHILD'S PLAY seeks to improve the lives of children and teens in pediatric hospitals and other child welfare facilities through the kindness and generosity of the gamer community and the power of play.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 89 grants below total $1,815,028 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,343,143 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $528,115 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $739k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $530k
- $250k+1 grant · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $317,141 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $187,315 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $147,077 |
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $79,500 |
| DELL CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER | $59,100 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $57,300 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $47,500 |
| INTEGRIS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $39,200 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $32,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC | $30,100 |
| JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $26,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $24,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
146 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TBTHE BUNGIE FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $2.5M · revenue ×38 · 43% of their budget
- GCGAMECHANGER CHARITY3× · 2017–2019 · $710k · revenue +87%
- TNTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $376k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $236k · revenue +33%
- LILONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $159k · revenue +35%
- MBMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
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…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ingenium Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
235 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 235 of the 261 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAMECHANGER CHARITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds GAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOM ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fairview Health Services ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA LUMA GUILD) ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE VALLEY GME CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds RILEY CHEER GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Child Life Disaster Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gamers Outreach Foundation Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Ronald McDonald House Global · Driven Brands Charitable Foundation · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Hyundai Hope on Wheels · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Encourage Kids Foundation · The Toy Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Child's Play funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- St Joseph's Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Child's Play through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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