Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,993,117 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ($2,682,626). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0B
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.0B
What Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Children's wisconsin, provides a comprehensive and integrated pediatric health care model that delivers superior quality and value by offering the best solution for the total health care needs of children within our community, state and region. Our vision is to have wisconsin children be the healthiest children in the country. As a premier and standard-setting leader in delivery of pediatric care, children's brings a commitment to excellence to our patients and families, medical staff, employees and communities in addressing the health and well-being of children.our mission is to serve our children through:caregiving - offering high-quality, comprehensive medical careadvocacy - speaking up and protecting childrenresearch - finding cures to the illnesses that affect childreneducation - sharing what we learn and teaching others to care for kids
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Inpatient services: children's hospital of wisconsin, inc. ("chw or "the hospital") operates a 298-bed hospital at its milwaukee campus, which includes an emergency room open on a 24/7 basis. It is a freestanding wisconsin hospital dedicated solely to the care and treatment of children and is one of the leading centers for pediatric health care in the united states. The hospital serves children with all types of illnesses, injuries, birth defects and other disorders. The hospital provides acute level services, as well as emergency and specialty care, to children from wisconsin and beyond. In 2023, 9,938 children were admitted to the milwaukee hospital, which includes a neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), pediatric intensive care unit (picu), a cancer and blood disorders center, medical/surgical units and a day surgery and short-stay unit. In addition, there were 4,221 observation patients in 2023. The hospital also operates a separately licensed 42-bed pediatric hospital, which includes a nicu and a pediatric medical/surgical unit, located at thedacare regional medical center-neenah, through which it provides pediatric expertise to the greater fox valley and green bay areas. In…
$644,059,352 spentof which $79,837,836 as grants$889,052,956 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $644,059,352.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.0B to $2.3B (+16%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Patrick Hammes
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 39 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.5M.
18 of 136 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: $155M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc); $91M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc); $6.6M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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 WISCONSIN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 OF WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 41% · 2020 49% · 2021 35% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
27% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC'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
58% of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 WISCONSIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$94.6M
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Children's Hospital & Health System Inc · exempt
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · exempt
- Children's Medical Group Inc · exempt
- Children's Service Society of Wisconsin · exempt
- Chorus Community Health Plans Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC?
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,993,117 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ($2,682,626). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $15,993,117 in grants to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC?
- UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,682,626 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 136 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