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Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

The LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world.

$122M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$64M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$752MHealth$221MHuman Services$6.7MSocial Science$2.1MCrime & Legal$290kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$3.5M
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+8 grants · $121M
$178,947
Median grant
9
States reached
$342M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY$63,708,505
LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$54,759,199
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO ADVANCE ADOLESCENT HEALTH$500,000
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$382,405
CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT (NASHP)$350,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS$338,520
FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA$300,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$298,365
INSTITUTE FOR PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE$249,858
STANFORD UNIVERSITY SOM$192,950
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$178,947
DUKE UNIVERSITY$98,704
CHILDREN'S REGIONAL INTEGRATED SERVICE SYSTEM (CRISS)$50,000
HEALTH LEADS INC$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP$50,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $300k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $99k → 9%CHILDREN NOW: $160k → 10%FIRST 5 SAN JOAQUIN (FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK): $18k → 12%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENT AND FAMILY: $250k → 8%FAMILY VOICES: $222k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 9%CALIFORNIA HEALTH REPORT (TIDES CENTER): $120k → 10%CHILD TRENDS: $115k → 8%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 9%CHILDREN NOW: $40k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $455k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE: $50k → 8%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 8%CALIFORNIA HEALTH REPORT (TIDES CENTER): $30k → 10%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $418k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE: $10k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $15k → 10%FAMILY VOICES: $250k → 10%FAMILY VOICES - SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $218k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $139k → 10%LEADING FOR KIDS: $2.0M → 7%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WITH DISABILITIES: $8k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%CALIFORNIA HEALTH REPORT (TIDES CENTER): $44k → 10%CALIFORNIA HEALTH REPORT (TIDES CENTER): $285k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 14%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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DC

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$228M · 19 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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19

Total granted

$228M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+26%

Still filing today

95%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationSocial ScienceCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LS
    LUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $217M · revenue +90%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +25%
  • FV
    FAMILY VOICES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +317%

Funded once

  • LF
    Leading for Kids
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue -85% · 100% of their budget
  • PR
    Population Reference Bureau Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -31%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2022 · $353k · revenue +11%

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.

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
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
3
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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4
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
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Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
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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
9
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
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The Association of Chrmc and University Physicians

Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…

Health
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Cook Children's Medical Center

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Health Care Strategies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. 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 …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%77%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,932

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

38 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. 38 of the 46 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $750,410,657 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY+7 more — $1,791,587 · EducationLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $217,348,907 · HealthLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHI…+12 more — $3,298,341 · HealthLeading for Kids — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities — $1,537,731 · Human ServicesFAMILY VOICES — $1,055,675 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $629,036 · Human ServicesInstitute for Family-Centered Care Inc — $555,300 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW — $413,960 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — $350,000 · Human Services+3 more — $158,133 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT — $1,540,183 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $1,131,407 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $338,520 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $178,947 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $119,177 · Other+6 more — $209,358 · OtherPopulation Reference Bureau Inc — $1,700,000 · Social ScienceNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $382,405 · Social SciencePUBLIC COUNSEL — $290,140 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S SPECIALTY CARE COALITION — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Education$752,202,244Health$220,647,248Human Services$6,699,835Other$3,517,592Social Science$2,082,405Crime & Legal$290,140Community Improvement$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $750,410,657 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $217,348,907 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetLeading for Kids — $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPopulation Reference Bureau Inc — $1,700,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT — $1,540,183 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities — $1,537,731 over 6y, 14% of budgetFAMILY VOICES — $1,055,675 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO ADVANCE ADOLESCENT HEALTH — $1,034,164 over 5y, 53% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $738,806 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC — $652,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $629,036 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $589,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Family-Centered Care Inc — $555,300 over 3y, 36% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $413,960 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $396,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $382,405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $353,202 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — $350,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $304,852 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $290,140 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $220,957 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $155,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC — $127,135 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $124,536 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD TRENDS INC — $115,201 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $98,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH LEADS INC — $71,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $70,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $68,903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $23,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK — $17,932 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALTY CARE COALITION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

California Healthcare…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…California Physicians…Conrad N Hilton Found…Annie E Casey Foundat…East Bay Community Fo…With FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…Pritzker Family Found…Public Health Institu…
California Healthcare FoundationCA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Healthcare Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · With Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Pritzker Family Foundation · Public Health Institute

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 Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Family Voices — 39% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 46 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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