California · Nonprofit
CHOC FOUNDATION
CHOC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 282 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,394,054 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM JEFF AND JENNIFER GROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,600,000). 153 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 282
- Grants received
- $89M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Choc Foundation does
Mission
Choc Foundation was formed to help support clinical and nonclinical services, medical education, research and allied fields of pediatrics at children's hospital of orange county, children's hospital at mission and to support its affiliates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's hospital of orange county (choc) - provides specialized pediatric services for the care of children and young adults. During this year, there were 86,338 days of inpatient care; 115,251 emergency room visits; 13,226 surgeries; and 389,979 primary and specialty care clinic visits. Funds raised helps to offset cost of services provided to indigent families.
$31,819,688 spentof which $31,819,688 as grants75% of program spendingChildren's hospital at mission (cham) - funds support affiliated acute care pediatric hospital. Facility provides pediatric, neonatal and care for emergency services. There were 9,119 inpatient care days, 14,530 emergency room visits; 457 surgeries and 20,622 outpatient visits.
$5,000,000 spentof which $5,000,000 as grants12% of program spendingChoc Foundation generates community awareness and resources for choc and cham. The foundation secures philanthropic support for health and well being of children.
$5,575,026 spent13% of program spendingProvidence speech and hearing center (pshc)
$55,019 spentof which $55,019 as grants0% of program spendingChildren's hospital at mission (cham)
$234,163 spentof which $234,163 as grants1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,683,896.
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 2024 to 2025, from $137M to $56M (−59%).
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.
83% of CHOC 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. 1 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
Christopher Harrison
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 119 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $12M.
36 of 282 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $15M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Healthcare of California). These are real filings, and they are not money CHOC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHOC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 282 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
CHOC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% 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
35% 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 CHOC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 37% · 2019 55% · 2020 11% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of CHOC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
80% of CHOC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CHOC FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 CHOC 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 17 related entities
- Children's Health Plan of California · exempt
- Children's Healthcare of California (Chc) · exempt
- Children's Hospital at Mission · exempt
- Children's Hospital of Orange County · exempt
- Crc Real Estate Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHOC 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 CHOC FOUNDATION?
- CHOC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 282 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,394,054 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM JEFF AND JENNIFER GROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,600,000). 153 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 282 organizations giving $89,394,054 in grants to CHOC FOUNDATION, 153 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOC FOUNDATION?
- THE WILLIAM JEFF AND JENNIFER GROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOC FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 282 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