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Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) is funded by 457 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $993,428,515 in grants to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ($754,931,691). 265 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,976 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,976 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
13% of THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$3.5M from 18 funders in 2025, up from $15M and 77 in 2017.
35 of 457 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 457 funders by total. Association, not causation.
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 82% · 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 77% · 2022 73% · 2023 76% · 2024 10% · 2025 42% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
36% of THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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.
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA is locally rooted: 84% of its grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 457 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $688k on record.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
62% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 457funders 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. view filing