Alabama · Nonprofit
Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation
Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,759,924 to it, the largest being STEPHENS FOUNDATION ($260,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6B
What Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (The Foundation) is to support the activities and mission of the Hospital (CHA).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Management and general administration of fundraising activities for the Hospital (CHA).
$9,340,788 spentof which $3,468,579 as grants69% of program spendingThe Foundation administers the Kaul Pediatric Research Institute program in connection with the University of Alabama. During 2024, the Foundation distributed $4,122,942 under this program.
$4,122,942 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,463,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3B to $1.6B (+18%).
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.
30% of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Thomas G Shufflebarger
President & CEO/EVP of Foundation
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $162k → $152k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $2.0M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 36% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
61% of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Alabama 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 Alabama 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Children's Hospital of Alabama · exempt
- Holy Innocents Indemnity LTD · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation?
- Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,759,924 to it, the largest being STEPHENS FOUNDATION ($260,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,759,924 in grants to Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation?
- STEPHENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 34 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