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The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation

The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,904,414 to it, the largest being PANSY SEITZ TRUST FOR CHILDREN'S MERCY ($2,120,998). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$24M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$4.9M
Net assets
$326M
18/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation does

Mission

To provide support for the activities and mission of The Children's Mercy Hospital.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Payments made to provide support for the activities and mission of The Children's Mercy Hospital.

    $7,212,235 spentof which $7,212,235 as grants
    76% of program spending
  2. Payments made to The Children's Mercy Hospital to be used for education, research, and other restricted purposes.

    $2,307,677 spentof which $2,307,677 as grants
    24% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,519,912.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($207M)2018 Revenue 57 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 103 ($213M)2019 Revenue 112 ($21M) Expenses 105 ($11M) Net assets 105 ($217M)2020 Revenue 69 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 106 ($220M)2021 Revenue 125 ($23M) Expenses 99 ($10M) Net assets 138 ($285M)2022 Revenue 139 ($26M) Expenses 107 ($11M) Net assets 123 ($255M)2023 Revenue 93 ($17M) Expenses 114 ($12M) Net assets 132 ($272M)2024 Revenue 73 ($14M) Expenses 58 ($5.9M) Net assets 149 ($308M)2025 Revenue 126 ($24M) Expenses 121 ($12M) Net assets 157 ($326M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (121)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

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 $220M to $286M (+29%).

$207M
$214M
$217M
$220M
$286M
$255M
$273M
$308M
$326M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

18% of The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8.6M
’17
$476k
’18
$10M
’19
$2.7M
’20
$13M
’21
$15M
’22
$5.8M
’23
$7.8M
’24
$11M
’25
14
months of
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

Lisa Murray

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+2+2+2+3+1+2+3
No longer listed·01232123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $528k → $416k.

8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Mercy Hospital Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 48% · 2019 35% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% — 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.

How long its funders stay

29% of The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Foundation draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 12 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
NY
NJ
CT
MO
KS
NC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Children's Mercy Hospital · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation?
The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,904,414 to it, the largest being PANSY SEITZ TRUST FOR CHILDREN'S MERCY ($2,120,998). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,904,414 in grants to The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation?
PANSY SEITZ TRUST FOR CHILDREN'S MERCY is the largest funder on record, with $2,120,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation 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 36 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