Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 876 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,652,555 to it, the largest being CLAWS FOUNDATION ($30,350,000). 511 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2B
- Funders on record
- 876
- Grants received
- $433M
- Net assets
- $4.7B
What The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia does
Mission
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care, innovative research and quality professional education into all of its programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia founded in 1855, is the nation's first hospital dedicated exclusively to pediatrics. The hospital is an integrated pediatric health care delivery system that provides quaternary and acute level pediatric services as well as emergency, primary, specialty home care, and poison control care for children. The hospital treats children within its service area irrespective of ability to pay. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been rated as among the best children's hospital in the country by u.s. News & world report (2003-2024). In the 2024-25 u.s. News survey, chop is nationally ranked in the top 5 rankings for 8 of the 10 specialties chop is surveyed. No. 1 ranking was awarded to the orthopedics center and the division of endocrinology and diabetes. No. 3 rankings were awarded to the divisions of gastroenterology & gi surgery, pulmonary medicine, urology and cancer. No. 4 ranking went to neurology and neurosurgery and neonatology. U.s. News has ranked the department of pediatrics at the university of pennsylvania's perelman school of medicine, located at chop, as the no. 1 department of pediatrics in the country. Total patient days:…
$1,806,668,641 spent$3,591,545,467 earned by the program80% of program spendingSince its founding in 1855, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has fostered some of the nation's pioneers in pediatric medicine and continues to be the premier training ground for future pediatric leaders. Its educational programs include one of the largest pediatric residency programs in the country. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is also committed to researching and finding cures for chronic and fatal pediatric illnesses through its extensive research program.
$447,037,484 spentof which $53,431,786 as grants$67,497,602 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,253,706,125.
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 $5.1B to $6.5B (+27%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% 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).
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.
Chief executive
Madeline Bell
President, CEO & trustee
Board chair
Christopher Gheysens
Chair & trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 208 funders to 353 funders, grant income rose $29M → $66M.
41 of 876 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 876 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
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 24 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 24 funders to its left
62% 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 23% · 2019 12% · 2020 20% · 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 8% — 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 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. 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
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 41 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0B on record — $2.0B federal, $715k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9B
- Department of Defense$62.6M
- Department of Education$10.8M
- Department of Justice$3.0M
- National Science Foundation$2.5M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.9M
- DE$686k
- VT$26k
- OK$2k
- CT$60
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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Bache Lewis Penrose LLC · disregarded
- Children's Health Care Associates Inc · exempt
- Children's Health Care Associates of Nj · exempt
- Children's Anesthesiology Assoc of Nj · exempt
- Children's Anesthesiology Assoc Ltd · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 876 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,652,555 to it, the largest being CLAWS FOUNDATION ($30,350,000). 511 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 876 organizations giving $432,652,555 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, 511 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- CLAWS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 876 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