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Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,653 to it, the largest being MARCH TO THE ARCH ($71,093). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$452M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$274k
Grants received
$627M
Net assets
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

Cook Children's Health Care System runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve25.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($178M) Expenses 100 ($170M) Net assets 100 ($294M)2018 Revenue 109 ($195M) Expenses 131 ($222M) Net assets 91 ($266M)2019 Revenue 130 ($231M) Expenses 134 ($228M) Net assets 94 ($277M)2020 Revenue 144 ($257M) Expenses 157 ($267M) Net assets 93 ($273M)2021 Revenue 159 ($282M) Expenses 159 ($269M) Net assets 96 ($281M)2022 Revenue 181 ($322M) Expenses 170 ($288M) Net assets 237 ($696M)2023 Revenue 200 ($356M) Expenses 197 ($334M) Net assets 255 ($747M)2024 Revenue 254 ($452M) Expenses 228 ($386M) Net assets 214 ($627M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (254)Expenses (228)Net assets (214)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of Cook Children's Health Care System’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$8.3M
17
$28M
18
$3.0M
19
$10M
20
$13M
21
$34M
22
$22M
23
$66M
24
26
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $64k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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: $20M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest WI Cook Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Cook Children's Health Care System raised.

From the IRS filings of Cook Children's Health Care System’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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

Cook Children's Health Care System leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 Cook Children's Health Care System.

26%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 52% · 2023 39%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

50% of Cook Children's Health Care System's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

64% of Cook Children's Health Care System's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
CA
KY
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Cook Children's Health Care System receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.

State$41k
Top programs
  • Admin Mgmt-Gen.Mgmt Consulting$41k

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 Cook Children's Health Care System

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
73%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Part of a family of 23 related entities

  • Child Study Center · exempt
  • Cook Children's Physician Network · exempt
  • WI COOK FOUNDATION dba Cook Children's Health Foundation · exempt
  • Cook Children's Medical Center · exempt
  • Cook Children's Home Health · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cook Children's Health Care System: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Cook Children's Health Care System?
Cook Children's Health Care System (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,653 to it, the largest being MARCH TO THE ARCH ($71,093). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cook Children's Health Care System have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $273,653 in grants to Cook Children's Health Care System, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cook Children's Health Care System?
MARCH TO THE ARCH is the largest funder on record, with $71,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cook Children's Health Care System find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing