Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,447,611 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S RETAIL ($2,649,827). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4B
What Seattle Children's Healthcare System does
Mission
Seattle Children's Healthcare System (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through research, education, and contributions to or for the benefit of tax-exempt organizations which provide health care services, primarily seattle children's hospital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Seattle Children's Healthcare System's program operating costs are related to activities incurred to provide, directly or indirectly, health care or health related services appropriate for the special needs of infants, children and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery of those services and/or the quality of those services through research, education, and child advocacy.
$13,818,323 spentof which $3,735,821 as grants$399,680 earned by the program99% of program spendingOccupancy and other costs related to the operation of the sand point clinic building which is rented to seattle children's hospital. The rented space is used to deliver healthcare services to infants, children and adolescents.
$169,545 spent$925,856 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,987,868.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.0B to $1.2B (+23%).
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.
44% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Kurt Shintaffer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $180k → $724k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $91M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Children's Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 95% · 2019 84% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 75% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM's grant income comes from Washington 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Syzygy Properties LLC · disregarded
- Seattle Children's Hospital · exempt
- Seattle Children's Foundation · exempt
- Seattle Children's Guild Association · exempt
- Children's Retail · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: 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 SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?
- SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,447,611 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S RETAIL ($2,649,827). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,447,611 in grants to SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?
- CHILDREN'S RETAIL is the largest funder on record, with $2,649,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 5 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