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RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,790,861 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AW CLAYES III CHARITABLE TRUST ($12,121,725). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$31M
Funders on record
189
Grants received
$58M
Net assets
$203M
96/189 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego does

Mission

Fundraising for rady children's hospital san diego, rady children's institute for genomic medicine and rady childrens health.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fundraising programs: solicitation and fundraising in support of programs, projects, and services of rady children's hospital san diego, rady children's institute for genomic medicine and rady children's health.

    $21,077,534 spentof which $18,613,716 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,077,534.

02The 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 ($41M) Expenses 100 ($33M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 96 ($39M) Expenses 122 ($41M) Net assets 104 ($26M)2019 Revenue 90 ($37M) Expenses 125 ($42M) Net assets 150 ($38M)2020 Revenue 125 ($51M) Expenses 190 ($63M) Net assets 99 ($25M)2021 Revenue 243 ($99M) Expenses 301 ($100M) Net assets 180 ($46M)2022 Revenue 430 ($176M) Expenses 530 ($177M) Net assets 671 ($170M)2023 Revenue 176 ($72M) Expenses 237 ($79M) Net assets 748 ($189M)2024 Revenue 122 ($50M) Expenses 181 ($60M) Net assets 762 ($193M)2025 Revenue 76 ($31M) Expenses 115 ($38M) Net assets 803 ($203M)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (115)Net assets (803)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 2021 to 2022, from $68M to $172M (+154%).

$26M
$29M
$41M
$27M
$68M
$172M
$197M
$209M
$211M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 874 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7.5M
’17
−$1.3M
’18
−$4.9M
’19
−$12M
’20
−$1.4M
’21
−$990k
’22
−$7.3M
’23
−$11M
’24
−$7.3M
’25
0.1
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

Doug Arthur

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed322529292830282931
Joined·+3+8+6+4+6+5+4+5
No longer listed·104654733
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $5.8M → $8.1M.

29 of 189 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $13M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rady Children's Hospital San Diego). These are real filings, and they are not money RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO raised.

From the IRS filings of RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 189 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

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

36% 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 RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO.

21%
largest funder
40%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 31% · 2021 18% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — 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

41% of RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

73% of RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO's funding base is broadening — from 41 funders to 70 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 7%Fundraising 39%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 16 related entities

  • Children's Health Plan of California · exempt
  • Children's Hospital at Mission · exempt
  • Children's Hospital of Orange County · exempt
  • Choc Foundation · exempt
  • Crc Real Estate Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO?
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,790,861 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AW CLAYES III CHARITABLE TRUST ($12,121,725). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO have?
IRS filings report 189 organizations giving $57,790,861 in grants to RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO?
JOSEPH AW CLAYES III CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $12,121,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 189 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