Colorado · Nonprofit
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 479 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,883,812 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,297,277). 275 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76M
- Funders on record
- 479
- Grants received
- $128M
- Net assets
- $76M
What Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation does
Mission
To advance the mission of Children's Hospital Colorado by educating and engaging the community, fundraising, and stewarding funds to support the hospital's work in providing care, education, research, and advocacy for children and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation believes all children should have the chance for a healthy, hopeful future and is solely dedicated to advancing the mission of children's hospital colorado. The foundation supports children's colorado's strategic plan by inspiring and facilitating philantropic investments and engaging and informing the community about the impact of philantropy on the health and well-being of children. Annual community support helps children's colorado care for more kids than any other hospital in our region, ensures access to world-class pediatric healthcare expertise families who need us, and drives life-saving innovations and medical discoveries that transform child health.
$43,388,446 spentof which $43,388,446 as grants80% of program spendingEndowment donations help children's hospital colorado attract the brightest minds in pediatric medicine, support the discovery of medical breakthroughs, advance novel treatments, raise the bar for clinical care and give children access to world-class pediatric care. Endowment gifts from visionary donors provide a reliable perpetual source of philanthropic funding and are held in a professionally managed long-term investment portfolio overseen by the children's hospital colorado health system, an affiliated entity. Endowment distributions are used for operations and to elevate clinical and research programs consistent with donor intent.
$10,641,272 spentof which $10,641,272 as grants20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,029,718.
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 2020 to 2021, from $65M to $82M (+26%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Betsy Searle
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 91 funders to 186 funders, grant income rose $8.7M → $21M.
63 of 479 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 479 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 10% 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
46% 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 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.
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
70% of Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 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
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Children's Hospital Colorado 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation?
- Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 479 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,883,812 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,297,277). 275 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 479 organizations giving $127,883,812 in grants to Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation, 275 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 479 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