Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (Washington) receives grants from 232 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,417,768 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($155,624,833). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1B
- Funders on record
- 232
- Grants received
- $282M
- Net assets
- $4.1B
What Seattle Children's Hospital does
Mission
Seattle Children's Hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their families. (continued on schedule o.)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient care: seattle children's provides superior medical care to children from washington, alaska, montana and idaho, serving the largest geographical area of any children's hospital in the united states. In addition, families living beyond our primary service region increasingly seek care from our world-renowned specialists in programs such as cancer, organ transplants and craniofacial specialties. In fiscal year 2025, seattle children's medical team treated kids of all ages during 584,308 patient visits, including 438,630 other ambulatory clinic appointments, 60,564 visits to our emergency department, 64,866 visits to urgent care, 18,989 admissions to the hospital and 1,259 day surgeries.
$2,083,004,862 spentof which $3,219,453 as grants$2,485,204,651 earned by the program81% of program spendingResearch: because research is the foundation of seattle children's mission to discover new treatment and cures, seattle children's research institute, a division of seattle children's, invested over $111 million in research during fiscal year 2025. Seattle children's research institute investigators are advancing scientific understanding of important biological processes and influencing the practice of pediatrics around the world.
$414,508,575 spentof which $60,389,535 as grants$47,875,357 earned by the program16% of program spendingEducation: seattle children's is the major resource for pediatric graduate medical education programs in our region. Residents and fellows from 80 programs accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme), three programs accredited by the american dental association (ada), and ten non-acgme accredited subspecialty programs rotated at seattle children's in academic year 2024-2025. Seattle children's has developed curriculum and evaluation methods that assess and assure resident competency in six main areas: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal and communications skills, professionalism, and system-based practice.
$59,252,436 spent$10,034,909 earned by the program2% of program spendingCare network: children's clinically integrated network, doing business as seattle children's care network (sccn), is a limited liability company established by seattle children's to develop, coordinate and implement a clinically integrated pediatric provider network to promote collaboration and modify practice patterns to enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of pediatric care. Sccn contributes to the mission of seattle children's by promoting health through its pediatric organized system of care that improves integration, coordination, quality, safety and efficiency for better outcomes for pediatric patients within the community.
$4,478,308 spent$2,879,451 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,561,244,181.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.9B to $5.6B (+14%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of SEATTLE 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 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 broadened from 66 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $25M → $33M.
17 of 232 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $1.1B from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Children's Foundation); $19M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Seattle Biomedical Research Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 232 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 79% · 2019 72% · 2020 61% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 65% — broadly stable.
“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
37% of SEATTLE 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1B
- Department of Defense$11.8M
- Department of Education$5.8M
- National Science Foundation$3.2M
- Department of Labor$350k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$68k
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 SEATTLE 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Children's Clinically Integrated Network LLC · disregarded
- Seattle Children's Healthcare System · exempt
- Seattle Children's Foundation · exempt
- Seattle Children's Guild Association · exempt
- Children's Retail · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL?
- SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (Washington) receives grants from 232 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,417,768 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($155,624,833). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 232 organizations giving $282,417,768 in grants to SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 125 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL?
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,624,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL 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 232 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