Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,777,593 to it, the largest being THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,731,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $163M
What Akron Children's Hospital Foundation does
Mission
Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron ("chmca"). Its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors to further the mission of chmca.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation works to ensure that the hospital (chmca) can continue to uphold its three promises: 1) to treat every child as we would our own 2) to treat others as they would like to be treated 3) turn no child away. During 2024, $19,911,756 foundation funds were used by chmca to support its mission. These foundation funds supported numerous programs within the hospital such as hematology/oncology, behavioral health, palliative care, research and education, the regional burn center, safety and injury prevention, child advocacy, neonatal, pediatrics, tele-health, and other programs.
$19,911,756 spentof which $19,911,756 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,911,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $163M to $197M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
45% of AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $562k → $1.5M.
25 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.8M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron). These are real filings, and they are not money AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 43% · 2019 41% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Children's Hospital Med Center of Akron · exempt
- Child Dimensions Insurance Company · exempt
- Akron Children's Health Collaborative · exempt
- Gamut Quality Improvement Collaborative LLC · partnership
- Galliard Broad Market Core Fund · partnership
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,777,593 to it, the largest being THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,731,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $12,777,593 in grants to AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,731,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 121 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing