Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 275 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,557,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,886,012). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118M
- Funders on record
- 275
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $978M
What Children's Hospital Foundation does
Mission
See schedule oChildren's Hospital Foundation dba children's national hospital foundation supports world class care and research for the nation's children. Children's national hospital foundation serves as the fundraising arm for children's national medical center (dba children's national) and its 501(c)(3) hospitals and research entities in washington, dc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oprogram service accomplishment 1children's national hospital foundation raises private, corporate and institutional financial support to ensure that patients and their families receive world-class, compassionate pediatric care. Donor gifts received by the foundation are reflected as revenue in the applicable supported entity's budget. As the supported entity incurs costs for research, care and education, donated funds are released into revenue and the expenses are reflected at the supported entity. This represents a movement of gift funds to the supported entity in accordance with the donor's designation and the supported entity's mission to advance pediatric care. With healthcare expertise and experience designed around kids' unique needs, children's national is the premier provider of pediatric services in the washington, d.c., metropolitan area and the region's only health system specializing in care specifically for children. Last year, children's national hospital cared for more than 240,000 unique patients from the nation's capital, maryland, and virginia, across the u.s. And around the world. We offer access to top pediatric specialists, surgeons, and mental…
$57,049,831 spentof which $57,049,831 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,049,831.
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 $635M to $769M (+21%).
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: 2023 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’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
Michelle Riley-Brown
President/CEO (cnmc)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 66 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $7.6M.
36 of 275 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $4.2M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Washington Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 275 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 FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
58% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% — 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
30% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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 FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- Brainy Camps Association · exempt
- Children's National Medical Center · exempt
- Children's Research Institute · exempt
- Children's Hospital · exempt
- Safe Kids Worldwide · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 275 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,557,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,886,012). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 275 organizations giving $60,557,714 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,886,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 275 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