Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Children's Hospital Corporation
Children's Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1114 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,385,713 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($70,455,062). 656 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6B
- Funders on record
- 1,114
- Grants received
- $887M
- Net assets
- $5.6B
What Children's Hospital Corporation does
Mission
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CLINICAL CARE: The services we offer from well child visits and treatment for typical child health issues (broken bones, tonsillitis, etc.) to chronic care (asthma, diabetes, obesity, etc.) and specialty services (oncology, cardiology, neurology) benefit from our clinicians' high level of specialization, our collaboration with research scientists (many of whom are also physicians) affiliated with the hospital, and our significant investments in equipment, facilities and clinical and support staff. Boston Children's is the safety net institution for very sick children throughout the region, supporting the entire health care system for the most complex pediatric cases. We receive referrals from community hospitals as well as from other academic medical centers throughout New England. Approximately 25% of our inpatients are transferred from hospitals & medical centers across Massachusetts for care that no one else can provide. In FY25, Boston Children's saw approximately 839,000 outpatient visits, 67,000 emergency department visits, 26,700 inpatient or observation stays, and 37,000 surgical cases. Our inpatient case mix index was 2.12 (MA only) and the average length of stay was 5.6…
$2,415,976,666 spentof which $16,371,788 as grants$2,840,728,137 earned by the program80% of program spendingRESEARCH: Our Research Mission is to be the leading source of research and discovery. We are the leader in discovery and innovation that is dramatically advancing not only pediatric care but adult care as well. We have the world's largest pediatric research program for many reasons. The most important reason is our focus on our patients. We are constantly evolving care and caring for increasingly complex patients. Every child who walks through our doors teaches us something. More than 3,000 basic, clinical, and translational research employees work in our dedicated facilities, which total some 1 million square feet of space.Our more than 1,100 investigators include 16 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 32 members of the National Academy of Medicine, 27 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 13 Fellows of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, 12 current members and 13 alumni of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Twenty-seven faculty are members of the American Association of Physicians and 47 are members of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Over the years, four Boston Children's investigators have won the Nobel Prize and six…
$510,257,684 spent17% of program spendingTEACHING: Boston Children's is committed to providing high quality continuing education for pediatric providers and specialists throughout the world. As the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, our more than 2,000 attending physicians and researchers are on the clinical frontier of effectively understanding and treating many pediatric diseases and disorders.We are proud to be the primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and our Nursing Department partners with 27 schools of nursing throughout Massachusetts and New England. We are home to the largest and most competitive training program in pediatrics, seeding the word with the next generations of scientists, innovators and caregivers.We delivered over 900 accredited Continuing Education courses (more than any other freestanding children's hospital). We host over 500 Boston Children's-based residents and clinical fellows annually, selected for their potential leadership in their respective fields and their commitment to advancing the frontiers of pediatric care. A 24-year analysis of residents who have graduated from our Department of Medicine found that roughly 40% go on to become leaders in…
$62,710,211 spent$23,373,408 earned by the program2% of program spendingBoston Children's Hospital was among the first academic medical centers in the country to expand the traditional missions of patient care, teaching, and research to embrace a fourth part of its mission - community. Through the years, Boston Children's has strived to ensure that community health is more than just words in its mission statement. The efforts have evolved from targeted services for individual families to innovative models that have proven to reduce health disparities, improve child health outcomes, and promote health equity.Boston Children's community mission is based on the needs of the community. It revolves around keeping children healthy through wellness and prevention efforts, ensuring that children have access to needed health care services, and partnering with others in the community to address the social drivers of health. These are issues that can have a significant impact on an individual's health such as exposure to violence, experiencing food insecurity, living in poverty, or having unstable housing. In all its endeavors, Boston Children's focuses on meeting community needs and implementing programs that are aligned with the priorities of the City of…
$0 spent0% of program spendingServing as an anchor for the communitySince 2018, Boston Children's has been a committed and proud member of the Healthcare Anchor Network, a national network of more than 70 hospitals and health care systems working to build more inclusive and sustainable local economies.The Boston Children's anchor strategy supports business practices that promote local economic engagement and aims to help improve community conditions that contribute to poor health. There are four pillars in Boston Children's strategy:1. Hiring and Workforce Development. Boston Children's partners with community organizations to recruit, hire, and train individuals from neighboring communities to ensure that employees are reflective of the communities we serve.2. Purchasing. Boston Children's supports community businesses by buying locally whenever possible, with a focus on increasing the participation of minority-owned, women-owned, and veteran-owned businesses.3. Investment. Boston Children's is investing in local projects that can produce significant health and social returns for our community. This includes projects that address affordable housing, early childhood education, youth engagement, and mental…
-Partnering to support the health and social infrastructure in place for families. Boston Children's is also committed to and directs resources to build capacity within the existing infrastructure of care for Boston children and families. This means supporting key partners such as Boston community health centers. The hospital has relationships and strong partnerships with 10 Boston community health centers. Through these partnerships, Boston Children's improves access to care for underserved populations, helps efforts to better manage chronic diseases, and supports prevention and treatment services that improve the health of Boston children, youth, and families. Health center partners receive funding, training, and technical assistance. Due to the on-going mental and behavioral health crisis for children and youth, Boston Children's has made a substantial investment to develop internal resources to assist patients with mental health/behavioral health conditions and their families (in coordination with state and community-based agencies) with crisis stabilization and care delivery transformation. Leveraging community partnerships and community-based providers, the focus is on…
$26,729,261 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,015,673,822.
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 $6.3B to $7.5B (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of Children's Hospital Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Kevin Churchwell MD
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Douglas Berthiaume
Director - Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 274 funders to 452 funders, grant income rose $96M → $123M.
46 of 1114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $299M from 60 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hospital Pediatric Associates); $2.6M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Crimson Lion Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Children's Hospital Corporation raised.
From the IRS filings of Children's Hospital Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1114 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 Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 19 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 19 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 Hospital Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 20% — 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
46% of Children's Hospital Corporation'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
Children's Hospital Corporation draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219M 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.
Against its field
Children's Hospital Corporation has grown faster than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Children's Hospital Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7B on record — $2.6B federal, $97.2M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6B
- Department of Defense$78.7M
- National Science Foundation$6.0M
- Department of Homeland Security$3.5M
- Department of Justice$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$483k
- MA$97.2M
- VT$62k
- FL$42
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Children's Hospital Corporation
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Children's One Brookline Place LLC · disregarded
- Children's Brookline Place LLC · disregarded
- Children's Five Brookline Place LLC · disregarded
- BCH Washington Street LLC · disregarded
- BCH Pearl Street LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Hospital Corporation: 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 Corporation?
- Children's Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1114 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,385,713 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($70,455,062). 656 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Hospital Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 1114 organizations giving $887,385,713 in grants to Children's Hospital Corporation, 656 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Hospital Corporation?
- President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $70,455,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Hospital Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1114 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