New Jersey · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE (New Jersey) receives grants from 194 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,822,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,337,932). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 194
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Children's Health Defense does
Mission
Ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure. The specific purposes of this corporation are to restore and protect the health of children by eliminating exposures to environmental toxins, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harm to children's health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through an online newsletter, daily video streaming and social media, chd reaches millions of followers every month about toxic exposures causing the epidemic of childhood chronic disease. Chd's publication the defender is widely recognized as the go-to source for accurate, well-cited health freedom information. Chd.tv regularly interviews leaders in the field and broadcasts key government hearings and events. Chd's social media amplifies defender and chd.tv and tracks daily news.
$5,548,505 spent$11,125 earned by the program49% of program spendingChd's litigation team is involved in over 30 ongoing lawsuits, challenging medical mandates, government and corporate censorship, agency capture, and the denial of well-founded medical and religious exemptions from vaccination. It also challenges federal preemption of state and local telecommunications towers, antennas and policies.
$4,306,249 spent38% of program spendingThrough online information, social media and video streaming, reform pharma highlighted medical corruption, captured medical regulators, the risks of psychoactive drugs and the need for thorough-going reform of the industry, the regulators, allied health organizations and the media.
$709,744 spent6% of program spendingResearch Children's Health Defense has thousands of members throughout the us who share with us personal stories about the decline in their children's health and what they think might have been responsible. We then engage our team of scientists, researchers, and advocates to dig deeper by combing through full-text archives of biomedical and life sciences research at the us national institutes of health's national library of medicine to determine if the parents' concerns are supported by research.
$705,688 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,270,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $11M to $20M (+83%).
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.
93% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Mary S Holland
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 76 funders, grant income rose $105k → $4.6M.
41 of 194 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 HEALTH DEFENSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 194 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 HEALTH DEFENSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 HEALTH DEFENSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 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
33% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
66% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE'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 $7.5M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 37 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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 HEALTH DEFENSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chd Publishing LLC · disregarded
- Childrens Health Defense Films LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: 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 HEALTH DEFENSE?
- CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE (New Jersey) receives grants from 194 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,822,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,337,932). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE have?
- IRS filings report 194 organizations giving $21,822,157 in grants to CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,337,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 194 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