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The Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers.

$157M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$15M
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 2025.

Health$28MScience & Tech$11MEducation$3.0MHousing & Shelter$838kYouth Development$429kRecreation & Sports$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $19,446,076, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,774,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $137,328,683 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $682k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $16M
$26,079
Median grant
25
States reached
$3.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPH LLC$15,117,565
KUMC Research Institute Inc$476,984
Westside Housing Organization$246,903
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center And Research Institute Inc$225,804
San Diego State University Foundation$216,436
UMKC KCUR Health Sci Bookst MMRRC RRRC Sheldon Casgsl$216,321
Albert Einstein College of Medicine$185,117
Duke University$184,888
Boston Children's Hospital Children's Hospital Corp$160,764
University of Illinois$148,297
Stowers Institute for Medical Research$136,588
KUCR University of Kansas Center For Research Inc$123,299
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$113,818
Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City$110,000
Oxford University Press$98,967
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 (FY20–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AdHoc Group Against Crime: $13k → 15%Synergy Services Inc: $10k → 8%Synergy Services: $6k → 8%Foster Adopt Connect Inc: $8k → 15%Sleepyhead Beds: $8k → 15%Community Services League: $7k → 15%Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc: $13k → 15%Lead to Read: $13k → 15%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 82 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
48

Total granted

$26M
$924k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+9%

Still filing today

74%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +102%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
  • MV
    MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • CC
    Chips Chocolate Factory KC FUD
    one grant, 2019 · $98k
  • AC
    Adventhealth Centra Care
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
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
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
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
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
10
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
11
The Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers. Together, we transform the health,…

Health
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is The Greenline Foundation Inc. 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

107 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. 107 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
76/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPH LLC: $15,117,565 · OtherOPH LLCCYFT Incorporated: $3,404,918 · OtherCYFT IncorporatedCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $1,665,890 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI+73 more: $6,401,217 · Other+73 moreUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,335,727 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MED…MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,003,372 · HealthMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMED…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $923,116 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INCRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $794,054 · HealthRonald McDonald House Ch…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $706,115 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDI…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $678,615 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER I…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $531,883 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CEN…+34 more: $2,507,532 · Health+34 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,200,112 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $950,647 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE…Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $724,979 · EducationAlbert Einstein…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $668,279 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…University of Miami: $564,908 · EducationUniversity of M…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $513,850 · EducationThe Kansas Univ…University of Chicago: $445,743 · EducationUniversity of C…Emory University: $231,215 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $216,275 · Education+15 more: $421,564 · Education+15 moreUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $483,672 · Science & Tech+1 more: $9,175 · Science & TechJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC: $215,000 · InternationalTHE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMPS FOR KIDS: $29,315 · Recreation & SportsHARRIS PARK MIDTOWN SPORTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$26,589,590Health$9,480,414Education$5,937,572Science & Tech$492,847International$215,000Housing & Shelter$200,000Recreation & Sports$141,815

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,335,727 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,200,112 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,003,372 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $950,647 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $923,116 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $794,054 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $724,979 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $706,115 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $678,615 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $668,279 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $564,908 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $531,883 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $513,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $483,672 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: $473,486 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $445,743 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS INC: $326,866 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWESTSIDE HOUSING ORGANIZATION INC: $307,227 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $249,706 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $231,215 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $226,413 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $216,275 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC: $215,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $204,262 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $202,730 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $193,913 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $182,201 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $145,558 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $140,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $128,264 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $122,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $98,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $95,664 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $92,791 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine: $90,362 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $84,037 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $76,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $64,213 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $51,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLIES HOUSE INC: $50,166 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetThe Transition Academy: $41,450 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMIDWEST HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION: $37,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $37,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $37,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $36,807 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $35,684 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE HOUSING ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Jewish Community Foun…William T Kemper Foun…Jackson County Commun…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…Menorah Heritage Foun…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO58.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Menorah Heritage 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 Mercy Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Children's Mercy Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 148 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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