Missouri · Nonprofit
The Children's Mercy Hospital
The Children's Mercy Hospital (Missouri) receives grants from 373 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,382,680 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($58,125,000). 230 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3B
- Funders on record
- 373
- Grants received
- $192M
- Net assets
- $3.1B
What The Children's Mercy Hospital does
Mission
Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers. Together, we transform the health, well-being and potential of children, with unwavering compassion for those most vulnerable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
All expenses for program services relate to providing healthcare. There was a total of 390 licensed beds and 203,844 adjusted patient days during the year from 14,807 admissions. Outpatient visits totaled 585,160 which includes 50,803 primary care visits, 91,051 urgent care visits, 95,187 emergency department visits and 348,119 specialty clinic visits. Telemedicine visits totaled 59,319 which includes both synchronous and asynchronous visits. There was a total of 21,482 surgical cases which includes 4,528 inpatient cases and 16,954 outpatient cases. Children's Mercy's Adele Hall Campus consists of a 338-bed teaching hospital for children located in Kansas City, Missouri, and a 52-bed hospital for children located in Overland Park, Kansas. Children's Mercy Hospital provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment, and facilities promoting the health and well-being of children in the region, from birth through adolescence. Patients and their families are treated with compassion in a family-centered environment that recognizes their physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual needs. The comprehensive healthcare environment provided by the Hospital…
$1,433,901,754 spentof which $152,512,435 as grants$2,098,943,515 earned by the program93% of program spendingChildren's Mercy Hospital (CM) is dedicated to becoming a leader in pediatric translational research. A strategic planning initiative established the Children's Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) to focus on research and research infrastructure. Through the generosity of two philanthropic gifts totaling $150 million, the Hospital has built a nine story, 375,000 square foot facility enabling research scientists to gain access to state-of-the-art research technology as well as dry lab and wet lab space to support that research. The building includes an auditorium for presentations to train medical school students and inform the public about pediatric healthcare innovations that are being developed and created by research scientists and physicians here in collaboration with others throughout the nation and world. In addition these generous gifts will help support funding for scientific programs and recruitment. Research conducted today at CM includes basic science and clinical research in numerous areas including pharmacology, cancer, cardiology, genetic diseases and health outcomes. Areas of research strength include Precision Therapeutics, Genomics Medicine, Population Health,…
$107,436,459 spentof which $4,262,324 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,541,338,213.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3B to $3.8B (+13%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of The Children's Mercy 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 89 funders to 183 funders, grant income rose $14M → $27M.
49 of 373 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $70M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Children's Mercy Hospital raised.
From the IRS filings of The Children's Mercy Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 373 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 Mercy Hospital has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 Mercy Hospital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 48% · 2019 39% · 2020 68% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 38% — 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
52% of The Children's Mercy Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 Mercy Hospital draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 32 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 23 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 Mercy 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 The Children's Mercy Hospital receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $195.6M on record — $195.6M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$191.7M
- Department of Defense$3.6M
- Consumer Product Safety Commission$117k
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
- Environmental Protection Agency$40k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$23k
- FL$945
- OR$44
- MA$20
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 Mercy 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- CMH Insurance Company LLC · disregarded
- Physician Business Partners LLC · disregarded
- Children's Research Institute LLC · disregarded
- PedsMarket LLC · disregarded
- Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital?
- The Children's Mercy Hospital (Missouri) receives grants from 373 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,382,680 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($58,125,000). 230 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Children's Mercy Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 373 organizations giving $192,382,680 in grants to The Children's Mercy Hospital, 230 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Children's Mercy Hospital?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Children's Mercy Hospital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 373 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