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Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation

Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,501 to it, the largest being Hendrick Family Foundation ($50,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$176k
Net assets
$1.9M
14/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation does

Mission

The organization's primary mission is to support children battling cancer by funding programs that improve patients' quality of life, treatment programs that increase survivorship, and pediatric medical research dedicated to finding a cure.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Various cancer research and support program direct expenses.

    $518,295 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. V Foundation - The All-Star Grant is an ongoing support of previous V Scholar or Translational grant recipients. The V Foundation looks for the most innovative ideas to improve the cancer landscape for patients.

    $300,000 spentof which $300,000 as grants
    17% of program spending
  3. Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center: This grant is to fund their research project entitled Novel Treatment for Relapsed/Recurrent High-Risk B-ALL.

    $300,000 spentof which $300,000 as grants
    17% of program spending
  4. NMDP Foundation: This grant is to fund a portion of the research project entitled CD33CART: A Clinical Trial Providing Hope for Children and Young Adults with Relapsed/Refractory AML.

    $250,000 spentof which $250,000 as grants
    14% of program spending
  5. PTCTC This grant will continue support of The PTCTC Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation New Investigator Award for encouraging clinical and/or laboratory research by young investigators in the field of pediatric transplantation and cellular therapies.

    $225,000 spentof which $225,000 as grants
    13% of program spending
  6. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: This grant is to support UTHSAs research project entitled Dual Targeting of Ewing Sarcoma.

    $200,000 spentof which $200,000 as grants
    11% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,793,295.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($566k)2019 Revenue 165 ($2.5M) Expenses 294 ($3.0M) Net assets 30 ($171k)2020 Revenue 212 ($3.3M) Expenses 195 ($2.0M) Net assets 262 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 322 ($5.0M) Expenses 345 ($3.6M) Net assets 525 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 192 ($3.0M) Expenses 285 ($2.9M) Net assets 499 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 77 ($1.2M) Expenses 273 ($2.8M) Net assets 233 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 191 ($3.0M) Expenses 235 ($2.4M) Net assets 337 ($1.9M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (191)Expenses (235)Net assets (337)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $4.1M (+148%).

$1.5M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.1M
$3.0M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$511k
’18
−$482k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$1.4M
’21
$27k
’22
−$1.6M
’23
$532k
’24
9.3
months of
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

Jeffrey W Chell MD

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed8887888
Joined·+1+0+2+1+1+0
No longer listed·103010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $5k → $19k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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

Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

67% 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 Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation.

28%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 51% · 2020 82% · 2021 33% · 2022 39% · 2023 45% — 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 Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

72% of Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
IN
PA
CA
TN
NC
TX

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve9.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Jeff Gordon Childrens 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 6%Fundraising 20%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

17%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Jeff Gordon Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation?
Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,501 to it, the largest being Hendrick Family Foundation ($50,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $175,501 in grants to Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation?
Hendrick Family 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 Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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