Texas · Nonprofit
Driscoll Children's Health Plan
Driscoll Children's Health Plan (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being JLH Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2B
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $204M
What Driscoll Children's Health Plan does
Mission
Driscoll Children's Health Plan is committed to providing efficient, cost-effective, quality care through a dedicated and compassionate, health care team and respectful coordination with its provider network.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Driscoll health plan, inc. (dhp) is contracted for the children's health insurance program (chip) in a fourteen county area comprised of aransas, bee, brooks, calhoun, duval, goliad, jim wells, karnes, kenedy, kleberg, live oak, nueces, refugio, san patricio and victoria counties. Dhp also is contracted for star (medicaid managed care) beginning september 1, 2006 for a nine county area, which are aransas, bee, calhoun, jim wells, kleberg, nueces, refugio, san patricio and victoria. Beginning september 1, 2011, star expanded to include five additional rural contiguous counties so that both chip and star medicaid would encompass the same fourteen (14) counties called the nueces service delivery area (sda). Additionally, dhp contracted for star in the hidalgo sda (medicaid managed care) effective march 1, 2012, in a ten county area comprised of cameron, duval, hidalgo, jim hogg, maverick, mcmullen, starr, webb, willacy and zapata. On march 1, 2012, dhp also started managing all pharmaceuticals administered to its members as this benefit was carved into the services provided to its members in the new texas statewide managed care contracts. In facilitating the administration of…
$1,151,156,380 spent$1,197,065,114 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,151,156,380.
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 $183M to $330M (+80%).
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.
0% of Driscoll Children's Health Plan’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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.
Chief executive
James Smith
President & Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.
From the IRS filings of Driscoll Children's Health Plan’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Driscoll Children's Health Plan's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Driscoll Children's Health Plan is better cushioned than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like Driscoll Children's Health Plan
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Driscoll Children's Hospital · exempt
- Children's Phys Services of South Texas · exempt
- Driscoll Valley Physicians Group · exempt
- Dch Development Foundation · exempt
- Driscoll Healthcare Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Driscoll Children's Health Plan: 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 Driscoll Children's Health Plan?
- Driscoll Children's Health Plan (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being JLH Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Driscoll Children's Health Plan have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Driscoll Children's Health Plan, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Driscoll Children's Health Plan?
- JLH Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Driscoll Children's Health Plan 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.
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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 1 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