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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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
38
States reached
$317k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$12MInternational$2.6MEducation$381kHuman Services$317kArts & Culture$252kYouth Development$235kPublic Safety & Disaster$126kScience & Tech$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
38
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%Boys Town National Research Hospital: $26k → 12%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $25k → 13%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $62k → 14%Ronald McDonald House of Scranton: $25k → 13%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati: $16k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - CINCINNATI: $16k → 16%RYTHER CHILD CENTER: $6k → 9%GAME TO GROW: $38k → 9%GAME TO GROW: $24k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 146 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
93

Total granted

$14M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TB
    THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.5M · revenue ×38 · 43% of their budget
  • GC
    GAMECHANGER CHARITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $710k · revenue +87%
  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $376k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SE
    ST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $236k · revenue +33%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $159k · revenue +35%
  • MB
    MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
2
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
3
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
4
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
5
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

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…

Health
7
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
8
University of Florida Health Corporation

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,…

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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Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
11
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

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.

Health
12
Children's Medical Center Corporation

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.

Health

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Local Food System Organizat…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%17%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/264
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,301

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
227/235
Grantees still filing
173/235
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GAMECHANGER CHARITY — $710,000 · HealthGAMECHANGER CHARITYChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $465,152 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $375,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $364,641 · Health+125 more — $7,431,144 · Health+125 moreTHE BUNGIE FOUNDATION — $2,510,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BUNGIE FOUNDATIONRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $277,476 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPI…KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $148,124 · Philanthropy+3 more — $48,229 · PhilanthropyST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD — $236,300 · OtherST ELIZABETH SETO…DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $195,970 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S F…Seattle Children's Foundation — $169,450 · OtherSeattle Children'…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $158,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA LUMA GUILD) — $150,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'…UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $144,180 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KEN…CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $134,500 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHC…ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER — $131,900 · OtherELIZABETH SETON P…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL VOLUNTEERS — $98,000 · OtherChild Life Disaster Relief Inc — $126,100 · Other+29 more — $882,740 · Other+29 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $72,305 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $67,400 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $67,090 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $63,950 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $33,500 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $31,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $27,864 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $19,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · Education+6 more — $77,400 · EducationRANDOM ACTS INC — $228,860 · Arts & CultureMISAMEACH INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureINGENIUM INC — $23,639 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC — $20,200 · Arts & CultureGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $234,700 · Youth DevelopmentGAME TO GROW — $62,220 · Human ServicesTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $61,567 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $50,400 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC — $32,600 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $25,954 · Human Services
Health$9,346,437Philanthropy$2,983,829Other$2,427,140Education$494,009Arts & Culture$332,699Youth Development$234,700Human Services$232,741

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BUNGIE FOUNDATION — $2,510,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetGAMECHANGER CHARITY — $710,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $465,152 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $375,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $364,641 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $277,476 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc — $255,015 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD — $236,300 over 1y, 15% of budgetGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $234,700 over 2y, 27% of budgetRANDOM ACTS INC — $228,860 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $227,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $223,063 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $221,735 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center — $203,644 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $202,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $195,970 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE BIRD AUXILIARY — $195,463 over 4y, 23% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $191,315 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $187,738 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc — $171,340 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $169,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFairview Health Services — $169,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $164,420 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $162,077 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER — $158,510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA LUMA GUILD) — $150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $148,124 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $137,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado — $135,112 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER — $131,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRILEY CHEER GUILD INC — $127,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetChild Life Disaster Relief Inc — $126,100 over 3y, 68% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $123,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $117,439 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $112,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $108,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $104,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $99,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL VOLUNTEERS — $98,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $97,760 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital Inc — $92,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $91,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $91,101 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $85,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $84,877 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $82,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation — $81,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $79,760 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Gamers Outreach Foundation IncMI61.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 200%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center5% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation0% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital0% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation0% of income from government
  • St Joseph's Hospital Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Child's Play?

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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 261 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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