Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,249 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,545). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Children's Hospital League Corporation does
Mission
The boston children's hospital league was created to raise funds to provide hope, miracles and health to children and their families. The league supports important patient services, medical research, and capital improvements and promotes community awareness for boston children's hospital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Every day, the Children's Hospital League Corporation improves and enhances the lives of children dealing with the unimaginable stress of hospitalization. The league's funding has been critical in helping the boston children's hospital provide some of its most important programs, many of which are funded solely through philanthropy provided by the league. More than 500 strong, league members are ambassadors and fundraisers for boston children's hospital - one of the world's premier pediatric care and research centers. League members have a strong commitment to ensure children have access to high-quality pediatric health care. Over time, league support has broadened to include vital hospital programs such as research and medical education.some of the recent programs funded by the league include the following: art therapy, laughter league clowns, center for young women's health, chaplaincy (harpist), community asthma program, entertainment carts, family day, inpatient car seat program, music therapy, pawprints pet visitation program, safety store, summer camp program, teen advisory committee, the foster grandparents program, technology for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
$504,244 spentof which $504,244 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $504,244.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.3M to $2.7M (−20%).
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.
104% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $21k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 LEAGUE CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 LEAGUE CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 LEAGUE CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 67% · 2020 99% · 2021 41% · 2022 55% · 2023 61% — 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
25% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION'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 $75k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 LEAGUE CORPORATION's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 1 related entity
- Children's Hospital Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION?
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,249 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,545). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $374,249 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $236,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE 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 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing