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VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,451,050 to it, the largest being THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
64
Grants received
$6.5M
Net assets
$55M
33/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation does

Mission

Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation is a charitable tax-exempt organization benefiting valley children's healthcare and its affiliated entities. The foundation's mission is to generate funds to support the goals of valley children's healthcare and its affiliated entities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Distribution to valley children's hospital, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, for equipment and operational expenses: $8,240,794

    $8,240,794 spentof which $8,240,794 as grants
    95% of program spending
  2. Distribution to valley children's medical group, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, for equipment and operational expenses: $396,117

    $396,117 spentof which $396,117 as grants
    5% of program spending
  3. The Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation is a charitable tax-exempt organization benefiting valley children's healthcare and its affiliated entities, valley children's hospital and valley children's medical group. The foundation's mission is clear and unequivocal: "generate funds to support the goals of valley children's healthcare and its affiliated entities, valley children's hospital and valley children's medical group."as the fundraising arm of valley children's healthcare and its affiliates, the foundation utilizes a variety of programs to raise philanthropic funds to meet valley children's healthcare's mission. The foundation is a participating member of the children's miracle network, and other widely anticipated valley events, including the harvest ball. In addition, the foundation has developed corporate, annual cause-marketing, outside special events, tributes, direct mail, and major and planned gift programs.while the only "member" of the foundation is valley children's healthcare, the work of the foundation is directed and assisted by the board of directors comprising 16 volunteer community members.founded in 1981, the foundation has developed and led…

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,636,911.

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 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($30M)2018 Revenue 84 ($16M) Expenses 79 ($12M) Net assets 112 ($33M)2019 Revenue 133 ($26M) Expenses 107 ($17M) Net assets 133 ($40M)2020 Revenue 194 ($37M) Expenses 232 ($36M) Net assets 116 ($35M)2021 Revenue 69 ($13M) Expenses 73 ($11M) Net assets 133 ($40M)2022 Revenue 150 ($29M) Expenses 189 ($29M) Net assets 111 ($33M)2023 Revenue 73 ($14M) Expenses 70 ($11M) Net assets 128 ($38M)2024 Revenue 156 ($30M) Expenses 175 ($27M) Net assets 150 ($45M)2025 Revenue 111 ($21M) Expenses 83 ($13M) Net assets 183 ($55M)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (83)Net assets (183)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 2024 to 2025, from $46M to $56M (+23%).

$31M
$34M
$41M
$36M
$40M
$33M
$39M
$46M
$56M
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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

84% of VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.6M
’17
$3.7M
’18
$8.9M
’19
$1.0M
’20
$1.8M
’21
−$690k
’22
$3.2M
’23
$2.7M
’24
$8.5M
’25
0.0
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

Ken Ramos

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed282724232425222221
Joined·+0+0+1+1+1+0+4+6
No longer listed·13200347
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $189k → $593k.

15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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

VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

49% 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 VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION.

31%
largest funder
45%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 46% · 2022 17% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.

“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

30% of VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

79% of VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 12%Fundraising 21%

Governance

19
board members
79%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Valley Children's Hospital · exempt
  • Valley Children's Medical Group · exempt
  • Valley Children's Healthcare · exempt
  • Holiday Guild · exempt
  • Fowler Business & Professional Park LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION?
VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,451,050 to it, the largest being THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $6,451,050 in grants to VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION?
THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 64 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