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Shriners Hospitals for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment.

$50M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$16M
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$146MHousing & Shelter$3.0MEducation$400k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $19,648,665, the rows itemized in this filing. The $49,896,411 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,247,746 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $250k+4 grants · $20M
$500,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$15,713,665
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON$3,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$400,000
INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVISORY NETWORK$25,000
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $6.4M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVISORY NETWORK: $25k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $3.0M → 14%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $72k → 7%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $62k → 14%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 12%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $29k → 7%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $48k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 7%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $10k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $30M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$30M · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR PATIENTS NEEDS AT SHRINERS HOSPITALS IN MEXICO, WHICH INCLUDE EMPLOYEE'S SALARIES, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, AND OTHER NECESSARY EXPENSES.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145M · 6 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$145M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+96%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
HealthEducationOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +75%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2022–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +29%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • JH
    JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +96%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
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
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,…

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2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
4
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
5
American Association of Medical Society Executives

American association of medical society executives (aamse) is committed to educating and supporting medical society professionals to advance the profession of medical society management, medical societies, and the physicians they serve.

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6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
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
8
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
9
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
10
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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11
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
12
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $126,005,242 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN+6 more: $5,536,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,800,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…University of Miami: $6,800,000 · EducationUniversity …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $3,000,000 · Other
Health$131,541,242Education$14,600,000Other$3,000,000

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 SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $126,005,242 over 8y, 29% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,800,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $6,800,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $3,010,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $3,000,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetPediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America: $291,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVISORY NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $10,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Shriners Hospitals for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shriners Hospitals for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 10 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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