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CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER
CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,752,215 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($1,618,017). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $811k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Childrens Med Res Charities of Amer Dba Childrens Med & Res Char of Amer does
Mission
Children's medical research charities of america dba children's medical & research charities of america fka children's medical charities of america receives funds from workplace payroll deduction fund drives for distribution to member agencies.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
The federation's primary purpose is to screen and certify charities that meet standards for inclusion in corporate and government workplace charitable fund drives and to act as the central representative and fiscal agent in those drives, thereby reducing fund raising costs for both the charities and contributors. These expenses relate to distributions to the twenty-one member agencies from amounts collected through the campaign.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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 → 2020: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $810k → $246k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER’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
CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 68% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 FY2020, 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
75% of CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER'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 $684k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER: 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 CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER?
- CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,752,215 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($1,618,017). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,752,215 in grants to CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,618,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 17 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