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Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$549k
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$802kHuman Services$530kEducation$100kPhilanthropy$55kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $915,841, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,013,041 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $97,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $303k
  • $250k+1 grant · $549k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOK CHILDREN'S PHYSICIAN NETWORK$548,882
COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$202,959
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$100,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
DOUBLE EAGLE CHARITIES INC$10,000
LEUKEMIA TEXAS$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR SAFE MEDICATION$10,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$9,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $551k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Covenant Health Foundation: $8k → 8%WARM PLACE: $10k → 11%MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION: $14k → 11%DOUBLE EAGLE CHARITIES INC: $10k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV UNTHCS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $500k → 11%Double Eagle Charities: $10k → 11%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 9 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$2.3M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • CC
    Cook Children's Physician Network
    2× · 2024–2025 · $967k · revenue +7%
  • WA
    WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $510k · revenue +123% · 38% of their budget
  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $460k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CM
    COWTOWN MARATHON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +73%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION TARRANT CT
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -48%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
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
Texas Heart Institute

The mission of Texas Heart Institute (THI) is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and improved patient care.

Health
2
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.

Health
5
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
6
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
7
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
9
Texas Health Institute

Texas health institute's mission is accomplished with a three-point strategy approach: produce evidence and ideas, translate and share efforts through conducting community health needs assessment, insights, and advance collaborative action.

Health
10
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
11
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
12
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council Education and Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County. 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cook Children's Physician Network: $966,762 · HealthCook Children's Physician NetworkCook Children's Medical Center: $460,407 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center+10 more: $145,020 · Health+10 moreWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $510,000 · Human ServicesWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME…DOUBLE EAGLE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $21,100 · Human ServicesALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH: $200,000 · OtherALL SAINTS…FIRST3YEARS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCOWTOWN MARATHON INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTrinity University: $9,000 · Education
Health$1,572,189Human Services$551,100Other$216,000Philanthropy$55,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$9,000

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 budgetCook Children's Physician Network: $966,762 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $510,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $460,407 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMMUNIZATION COLLABORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUBLE EAGLE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOWTOWN MARATHON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION TARRANT CT: $13,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST3YEARS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONGENITAL HYPERINSULINISM INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTrinity University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $6,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Fort Worth Hospital Council Education and Research Foundation: $6,000 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.

Community Foundation …Thomas M Helen McKee …Communities Foundatio…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cook Children's Health Care System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cook Children's Health Care System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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