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Encourage Kids Foundation

Making hospitals a better place to get better by helping seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities.

$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$1.5MArts & Culture$9kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$6k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $240,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $262,882 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,382 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $176k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT SINAI KRAVIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$30,000
NYC HEALTH HOSPITALSBELLEVUE$25,000
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN KOMANSKY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE$14,000
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$12,000
TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
GOOD SAMARITAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$10,000
UMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
HURLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS$10,000
HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC (HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION)$10,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$9,000
THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER$9,000
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (MIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM INC)$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 12%CHILTON MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
LA
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$974k · 16 repeat orgs$502k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
34

Total granted

$974k
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+37%

Still filing today

94%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $215k · revenue +64%
  • TR
    THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +385%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AM
    ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • AM
    ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
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
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
2
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
7
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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8
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
9
Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
11
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Marys Hospital for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

50 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. 50 of the 61 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)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $215,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITALNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $153,260 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC: $122,340 · HealthCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INCTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 · HealthTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $44,000 · HealthTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER: $40,003 · Health+33 more: $436,858 · Health+33 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $68,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $33,280 · OtherALBANY MED HEALTH SY…ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $30,000 · OtherALBANY MED HEALTH SY…GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,700 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPI…ELMHURST MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $17,500 · OtherELMHURST MEMORIAL HE…ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER: $16,000 · OtherELIZABETH SETON PEDI…OUR LADY OF THE LAKE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $12,000 · OtherHURLEY MEDICAL CENTER: $10,500 · OtherCHILD LIFE COUNCIL INC: $9,127 · OtherST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $9,000 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC: $9,000 · Other+4 more: $29,000 · Other+4 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $65,500 · EducationSERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $8,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $5,280 · EducationFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10,000 · Human ServicesChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc: $5,745 · Human ServicesHURLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Health$1,086,961Other$265,107Education$98,780Human Services$15,745Civil Rights$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 budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $215,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $153,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC: $122,340 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $65,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $44,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER: $40,003 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $27,626 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $21,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $17,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC: $13,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospital For Special Care: $11,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn T Mather Memorial Hospital: $10,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD LIFE COUNCIL INC: $9,127 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEl Paso Childrens Hospital Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMiami Children's Health System Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $8,809 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $8,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Nassau Communities Hospital Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER HEALTH SYSTEM A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $6,603 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVassar Brothers Hospital Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,344 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc: $5,745 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Joy In Childhood Foun…Child's PlayAmerican Cancer Socie…Mother Cabrini Health…Will Rogers Motion Pi…The Toy Foundation IncRite Aid Healthy Futu…Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Reach Out and Read IncAmerican Heart Associ…American Academy of P…
Joy In Childhood Foundation IncMA29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Child's Play · American Cancer Society Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · The Toy Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · American Heart Association Inc · American Academy of Pediatrics

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 Encourage Kids Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Encourage Kids Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Hospital for Special Care: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report 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, FY20–24
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Encourage Kids Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Encourage Kids Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 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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