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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 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$979MHuman Services$3.1MInternational$1.7MEducation$1.7MCivil Rights$220kCrime & Legal$175kYouth Development$28k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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 NOW$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP$50,000
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC$50,000
02The need
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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 (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. Its 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
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
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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
California Childrens Hospital Association

Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.

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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
Valley Children's Healthcare

To support health care activities and programs for the benefit of, and to provide health care services to, children and adults in central california with diseases, disorders and other health problems of pediatric origin, and to enhance the…

Health
5
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
6
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
7
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
8
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
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
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
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Health Care Strategies Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 46 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $17,932 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALTY CARE COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

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

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 Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 46 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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