Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,428,223 to it, the largest being The George Washington University ($7,511,028). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $-482480064
What Children's Research Institute does
Mission
Children's Research Institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of childhood diseases.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center for health outcomes research (cnr) - see schedule o.program service activity 1center for health outcomes research & delivery science (chords): chords includes over 150 faculty members from various clinical and health services research backgrounds. They range from pediatric subspecialists to generalists to psychologists and social scientists across 26 clinical divisions. Chords invesitgators pursue studeis in numerous areas united by one or more of the following themes: (1) identifying how the organization and delivery of health care are related to its effectiveness; (2) improving the quality of health care for children; and (3) characterizing the circumstances, behaviors, risk status and health/mental health of children and families in the context of their communities. Through multidisciplinary collaborations, we aim to improve healthcare across the spectrum of clinical care, from the inpatient setting to the community. Research in these areas spans the full translational continuum and the spectrum of clinical care from the inpatient setting to the community leveraging social, behavioral and medical interventions with health policy implications. This growing center expensed…
$34,304,860 spent31% of program spendingCenter for neuroscience research - see schedule o.program service activity 2center for neuroscience research (cnr): the cnr has grown rapidly in the past 10 years with significant increases in the program and the generation of important scientific discoveries. The cnr currently comprises 50 faculty members with full appointments at our academic affiliate, the george washington university school of medicine and health sciences (gw). In recognition of these accomplishments, cnmc constructed a new floor of laboratory space in 2008 to serve as home for the cnr and to provide additional space for recruitments. The cnr currently resides in over 12,000 square feet of open architecture research space. We believe that the cnr is now uniquely poised to accomplish its mission, as its research program, research labs, and supporting infrastructures are now physically located on the 6th floor of the main building of cnmc. This allows close interactions between basic neuroscientists, translational neuroscientists, and clinician neuroscientists, including child neurologists, neonatologists, and critical care pediatricians. This unique and exciting setting has supported and promoted a large number…
$22,846,489 spent21% of program spendingCenter for cancer and immunology research - see schedule o.program service activity 3center for cancer and immunology research: the center for cancer & immunology research (ccir) aims to develop and apply scientific knowledge in the areas of cancer, blood, and infectious and immunologic disorders to advance patient care. The ccir was reorganized to integrate the clinical and research enterprises in oncology, infectious disease, hematology, allergy, immunology and rheumatology in order to be aligned with the center for cancer and blood disorders (ccbd) and promote and facilitate the conduct of translational research. This reorganization has now resulted in the establishment of 5 sections:1. Childhood cancer2. Infectious disease3. Cancer immunology/immunotherapy4. Hematology & transfusion medicine 5. Allergy, immunology, rheumatologythe new structure has allowed the ccir leadership to work closely with ccbd leadership to better develop a strategic goal for the future, including strategic expansion of research programs rather than opportunistic recruitments. The center of cancer and immunology research had $19,116,811 in expenses fy 2025.
$19,116,811 spent17% of program spendingCenter for precision medicine and genomics research: the center for precision medicine and genomics research (precision medicine) houses a highly interdisciplinary faculty, with nearly half of the physician-scientists coming from clinical divisions in the hospital. Precision medicine focus on common health problems in washington, d.c., as well as serving as an international referral site for rare disorders. Faculty and their laboratories are encouraged to be collaborative and many of the center's projects bring together multiple clinical and scientific disciplines. The center strives to provide faculty easy access to the latest technologies in genomics, microscopy, bioinformatics, pre-clinical (murine) drug trials, and multi-site clinical trial networks. The center provides services in these technologies to laboratories throughout the district, and internationally, through a series of national institutes of health (nih) core grants. Drug development and experimental therapeutics are also a major focus. Precision medicine uses data from interdisciplinary studies of molecules and pathways to create interactive physiological models of human health and disease that provide novel…
$34,954,030 spent$120,782 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,222,190.
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 $31M to $14M (−54%).
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 63% · 2018 63% · 2019 68% · 2020 71% · 2021 72% · 2022 68% · 2023 70% · 2024 64% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Chair, pres/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 20 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $4.3M → $4.1M.
5 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $111M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
94% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 41% · 2019 33% · 2020 16% · 2021 13% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% — 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $384.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$368.5M
- Department of Defense$14.3M
- Department of Education$862k
- National Science Foundation$554k
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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- Children's Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Children's National Medical Center · exempt
- Safe Kids Worldwide · exempt
- Children's Hospital · exempt
- Brainy Camps Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,428,223 to it, the largest being The George Washington University ($7,511,028). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $37,428,223 in grants to CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- The George Washington University is the largest funder on record, with $7,511,028 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 90 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