How much does The Children's Health Fund give?

The Children's Health Fund reported 14 grants totaling $1,399,179 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Children's Health Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (94%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%), Science & Tech (2%).

Who are The Children's Health Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montefiore Medical Center ($9.4M), Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc ($1.3M), Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach ($1.1M).

Does The Children's Health Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Children's Health Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Direct Relief, American Cancer Society Inc, Reach Out and Read Inc.

Where is The Children's Health Fund based?

The Children's Health Fund is based in NY.

The Children's Health Fund

The Children's Health Fund at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The Children's Health Fund

Children's Health Fund (CHF) leads a national network to bring comprehensive healthcare to children growing up in under-resourced communities and advocates for the health and well-being of all children.

$1.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$746k

Largest

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$23MPublic Safety & Disaster$958kScience & Tech$442k

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $161k
$50k–250k5 grants · $488k
$250k+1 grant · $746k

$45,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital	$745,500
Salud Integral en la Montana	$147,250
Henry J Austin Health Center	$105,000
Center For Rural Health Innovation	$94,574
Health Care Centers In Schools	$70,500
Children's National Health System	$70,500
Montefiore Medical Center	$45,500
Family Health Services	$40,000
Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potntial	$22,000
Lucille Packard Foundation For Children's Health	$13,500
Tulane University	$10,155
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine	$10,000
Henry Ford Health System	$10,000
University Of Chicago	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Children's Health Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Children's Health Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 27 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+62%

Still filing today

85%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity 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

MM
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.4M · revenue +59%
CC
Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +195%
ML
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +29%

Funded once

CH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $190k · revenue +62%

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.

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

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

Howard County General Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins howard county medical center, a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service excellence,…

Health

Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health

Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health

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

Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health

Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health

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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Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Centers in Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$18,554,461Education$2,190,240Other$2,079,462Human Services$1,094,750Community Improvement$286,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Direct ReliefCA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Direct Relief · American Cancer Society Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Americares Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Children's Health Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Children's Health Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report 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, FY20–25

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home