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Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation

Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 469 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,163,003 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,297,277). 269 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$76M
Revenue FY2024
469
Funders on record
$117M
Grants received
$76M
Net assets
269/469 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health 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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54M) Expenses 100 ($48M) Net assets 100 ($47M)2018 Revenue 104 ($56M) Expenses 110 ($52M) Net assets 106 ($50M)2020 Revenue 112 ($61M) Expenses 136 ($64M) Net assets 108 ($51M)2021 Revenue 155 ($84M) Expenses 155 ($73M) Net assets 129 ($61M)2022 Revenue 157 ($85M) Expenses 177 ($84M) Net assets 128 ($61M)2023 Revenue 141 ($76M) Expenses 147 ($70M) Net assets 147 ($70M)2024 Revenue 142 ($76M) Expenses 150 ($71M) Net assets 160 ($76M)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (150)Net assets (160)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.4M
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$3.5M
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$3.9M
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$10M
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$860k
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$6.3M
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$5.2M
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1.9
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 91 funders to 186 funders, grant income rose $8.7M → $21M.

62 of 469 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% 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 Hospital Colorado Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 469 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 Hospital Colorado Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 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 Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation.

11%
largest funder
27%
top three
~26
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 15%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

41% of Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 statesis 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 469 funders put you typical 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 Hospital Colorado Foundation

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 Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 8%Fundraising 16%

Governance

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board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Children's Hospital Colorado · exempt
  • Children's Hospital Colorado Health System · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Hospital Colorado 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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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 Hospital Colorado Foundation?
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 469 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,163,003 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,297,277). 269 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation have?
IRS filings report 469 organizations giving $117,163,003 in grants to Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation, 269 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation?
THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,297,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 469funders 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