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CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE

CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE (New Jersey) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,692,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,337,932). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$15M
Revenue FY2024
188
Funders on record
$22M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
93/188 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Against its field

CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)55% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($746k) Net assets 100 ($546k)2019 Revenue 272 ($2.9M) Expenses 249 ($1.9M) Net assets 298 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 631 ($6.8M) Expenses 635 ($4.7M) Net assets 681 ($3.7M)2021 Revenue 1477 ($16M) Expenses 1222 ($9.1M) Net assets 1939 ($11M)2022 Revenue 2175 ($24M) Expenses 1938 ($14M) Net assets 3601 ($20M)2023 Revenue 1492 ($16M) Expenses 2574 ($19M) Net assets 3039 ($17M)2024 Revenue 1408 ($15M) Expenses 2132 ($16M) Net assets 2898 ($16M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1408)Expenses (2132)Net assets (2898)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$336k
18
$1.1M
19
$2.1M
20
$6.9M
21
$9.1M
22
$3.1M
23
$683k
24
7.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 75 funders, grant income rose $105k → $4.6M.

40 of 188 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 188 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

CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

72% 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 CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE.

15%
largest funder
36%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 14%diversifying over time.

“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

34% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

66% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.4M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 38 states.

ME
NH
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ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
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MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
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NC
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HI
OK
GA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 188 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 21%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
60%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

AK
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WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
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MA
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PA
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RI
CA
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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Chd Publishing LLC · disregarded
  • Childrens Health Defense Films LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE?
CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE (New Jersey) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,692,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,337,932). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE have?
IRS filings report 188 organizations giving $21,692,344 in grants to CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,337,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 188funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing