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The Childrens Hospital

The Childrens Hospital (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,633,751 to it, the largest being TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ($2,025,306). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$411M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$5.8B
19/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Childrens Hospital does

Mission

The purpose of the children's hospital is to provide financial support and otherwise operate for the benefit and support of cincinnati children's hospital medical center. Cincinnati children's hospital medical center's mission is to improve child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education and innovation. For patients from the community, the nation and the world, the care provided will achieve the best medical and quality of life outcomes, patient and family experience and value, today and in the future.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The children's hospital, cincinnati, ohio ("tch") is an irc sec. 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization whose sole purpose is to provide charitable financial support to cincinnati children's hospital medical center. Such charitable financial support is provided primarily through expendable income generated by investments of endowment and other funds by tch. During the tax year july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025, in fulfillment of this charitable mission, tch provided financial support amounting to $186,571,039 to cincinnati children's to support its charitable efforts in pediatric patient care and related research.

    $186,571,039 spentof which $186,571,039 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $186,571,039.

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 ($188M) Expenses 100 ($65M) Net assets 100 ($2.4B)2018 Revenue 104 ($195M) Expenses 129 ($84M) Net assets 116 ($2.8B)2019 Revenue 174 ($326M) Expenses 134 ($87M) Net assets 134 ($3.3B)2020 Revenue 75 ($141M) Expenses 147 ($96M) Net assets 134 ($3.3B)2021 Revenue 118 ($223M) Expenses 171 ($112M) Net assets 178 ($4.3B)2022 Revenue 142 ($267M) Expenses 173 ($113M) Net assets 176 ($4.3B)2023 Revenue 125 ($234M) Expenses 193 ($126M) Net assets 192 ($4.7B)2024 Revenue 128 ($240M) Expenses 283 ($184M) Net assets 218 ($5.3B)2025 Revenue 219 ($411M) Expenses 297 ($193M) Net assets 238 ($5.8B)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (297)Net assets (238)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 $3.3B to $4.3B (+32%).

$2.5B
$2.9B
$3.3B
$3.3B
$4.3B
$4.4B
$4.7B
$5.4B
$5.8B
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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

1% of The Childrens Hospital’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 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.

$123M
’17
$112M
’18
$239M
’19
$45M
’20
$111M
’21
$154M
’22
$109M
’23
$56M
’24
$218M
’25
1.1
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

David Osborn

Chairman / president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed202120202120201916
Joined·+3+0+2+3+1+5+2+1
No longer listed·21222534
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $894k → $123k.

2 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Childrens Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 Childrens Hospital leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 Childrens Hospital.

56%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 74% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 37% · 2022 51% · 2023 33% — 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

22% of The Childrens Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 Childrens Hospital draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 16 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Childrens Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin53% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like The Childrens 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Children's Hospital Medical Center · exempt
  • Cchmc Community Health Services Network · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Childrens Hospital?
The Childrens Hospital (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,633,751 to it, the largest being TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ($2,025,306). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Childrens Hospital have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,633,751 in grants to The Childrens Hospital, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Childrens Hospital?
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,025,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Childrens Hospital find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 40 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing