California · Nonprofit
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH (California) receives grants from 319 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,962,988 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($126,368,759). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114M
- Funders on record
- 319
- Grants received
- $550M
- Net assets
- $303M
What Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health does
Mission
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. Our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile packard children's hospital and the stanford school of medicine. We also shape and support programs that make health care more accessible for children with complex medical needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Development: the foundation raises funds to support the lucile packard children's hospital stanford and the child and maternal health programs at the stanford school of medicine. One hundred percent of funds raised are transferred to the hospital and school of medicine on a monthly basis. Current fundraising priorities include research and clinical programs in cancer, heart, and mothers and babies.
$127,300,055 spentof which $127,300,055 as grants$39,879,066 earned by the program95% of program spendingThrough its grantmaking, thought leadership and advocacy, the foundation partners with grantees to identify opportunities to address inequities in the systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. The foundation engages family experts from a range of perspectives to review grant proposals and provides resources to ensure our work is accessible to all stakeholders. During the fiscal year ended august 31, 2025, the foundation invested approximately $7 million dollars in this area.
$7,157,939 spentof which $3,975,422 as grants5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $134,457,994.
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 2021 to 2022, from $375M to $459M (+22%).
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.
67% of LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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.
Board chair
Susan Ford Dorsey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 106 funders, grant income rose $16M → $79M.
56 of 319 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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: $6.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University). These are real filings, and they are not money LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 319 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
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
58% 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 LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 63% · 2019 49% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 57% · 2023 53% — 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
40% of LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
54% of LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH'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 $251M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH 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 LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (11) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH?
- LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH (California) receives grants from 319 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,962,988 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($126,368,759). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 319 organizations giving $549,962,988 in grants to LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $126,368,759 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 319 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