Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 241 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,164,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,642,914). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 241
- Grants received
- $68M
- Net assets
- $424M
What Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation does
Mission
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of children, teenagers, and young adults through excellence in patient care, teaching, research, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual funding for chp: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation (foundation) is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh. Through targeted campaigns, special events, and grants, the foundation raises money to support the hospital's mission of excellence in patient care, teaching, and research. Children's has been a charitable institution since its inception and remains a non-profit entity. To ensure the continuation of its charitable mission, in july 2000, the foundation was established as a subsidiary of children's. It then became an independent organization when the hospital merged with upmc in october 2001. Through the foundation, generous donations large and small from individuals, corporations, foundations, and community partners have a direct and immediate impact on children's hospital's ability to transform young lives through unparalleled care and deep compassion. Rooted in philanthropy, children's is sustained by generous community support, setting the standards of excellence in pediatric care. In fy 2019, the foundation sent more than $21 million in contributions to the hospital in support of research, clinical programs, medical education…
$53,896,516 spentof which $53,896,516 as grants100% of program spendingFree care funding: parents face plenty of worries, but whether or not they can afford their child's health care should never be one of them. Children's provides care to sick children in our region, regardless of their families' insurance or ability to pay through the generous donations made to the free care fund.during the fiscal year which ended june 30, 2025, children's provided more than $41.3 million in free and uncompensated care.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,896,516.
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 $300M to $387M (+29%).
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.
65% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH 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. 3 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.
Board chair
Vanessa Opperman Morehouse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $8.7M.
28 of 241 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $10M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 241 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 OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
53% 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 OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 35% · 2023 14% — 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
44% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
69% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH 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 OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION?
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 241 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,164,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,642,914). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 241 organizations giving $68,164,134 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION, 159 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,642,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 241 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