Arizona · Nonprofit
Phoenix Children's Hospital
Phoenix Children's Hospital (Arizona) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,578,257 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,853,052). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7B
- Funders on record
- 224
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $1.7B
What Phoenix Children's Hospital does
Mission
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
From birth through early adulthood, bones, joints and muscles (the musculoskeletal system) go through many changes. Because growth and development is happening at such a fast pace, injuries, diseases and conditions affecting a young person's musculoskeletal system can be challenging to treat. Children aren't just small adults; they require a different kind of care. The team at the top-ranked herbert j. Louis center for pediatric orthopedics at phoenix children's is expertly trained to care for children and teens who experience musculoskeletal injuries or diseases and conditions impacting musculoskeletal function. When you choose phoenix children's for your child's care, you choose an orthopedics team dedicated to caring for the unique needs of children. You can count on us to think about your child's long-term health and offer them the treatment that's most appropriate for their stage of development. Our goal is to return your child to normal function and movement as quickly and safely as possible. Team approach to care - many problems associated with a child's bones, joints or muscles require care from more than one medical specialty. The phoenix children's orthopedics team…
$1,306,165,310 spentof which $3,000 as grants$1,608,949,414 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,306,165,310.
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 $1.7B to $2.4B (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Phoenix Children's Hospital’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. 0 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
Robert L Meyer
Director/president & CEO
Board chair
David Lenhardt
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 84 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.1M.
16 of 224 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $156M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Phoenix Children's Hospital raised.
From the IRS filings of Phoenix Children's Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 224 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
Phoenix Children's Hospital has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 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 Phoenix Children's Hospital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 20% · 2019 13% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 7% — 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
34% of Phoenix Children's Hospital'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
Phoenix Children's Hospital draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Phoenix Children's Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Phoenix Children's Hospital receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$42.8M
- Department of Defense$2.2M
- Department of Justice$10k
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 Phoenix Children's Hospital
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Phoenix Children's Care Network LLC · disregarded
- Phx Children's Community Physicians LLC · disregarded
- Arizona Children's Risk Solutions · exempt
- Children's Healthcare of Arizona Inc · exempt
- Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Phoenix Children's Hospital: 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 Phoenix Children's Hospital?
- Phoenix Children's Hospital (Arizona) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,578,257 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,853,052). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Phoenix Children's Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 224 organizations giving $15,578,257 in grants to Phoenix Children's Hospital, 122 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Phoenix Children's Hospital?
- THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,853,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Phoenix Children's Hospital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 224 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