GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology

Washington, DC · EIN 46-4152355. Reported 55 grants totalling $4,706,716 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$49,999median reported grant
$4,706,716granted, 2021-2024
47%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G51) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 47% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $49,999. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,706 and the largest $545,993. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
16 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
9 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Childrens Theatre of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$697,551442024
Childrens Hospital CorporationBoston, MA$599,300442024
The Childrens Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$418,206442024
Seattle Childrens FoundationSeattle, WA$374,159112023
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$296,329332024
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$287,500112024
Wake Forest University Health SciencesWinstonsalem, NC$249,857222024
Duke UniversityDurham, NC$243,524332023
University of Alabama at Birmingham$174,940222022
Hackensack Meridian Health IncEdison, NJ$163,034332023
The Nemours FoundationJacksonville, FL$150,000222022
University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$149,844222022
Charity NavigatorUnion City, NJ$124,965112024
The Feinstein Institute for Medical ResearchWestbury, NY$75,000332024
Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY$74,999222023
Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN$62,979222023
Regents of the University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$55,854222022
Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research InstituteLittle Rock, AR$50,000112024
Rutgers the State UniversityPiscataway, NJ$50,000112023
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$50,000112022
Nationwide Childrens Hospital IncColumbus, OH$49,995112022
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$49,920112024
Research Foundation for the State University of New YorkAlbany, NY$48,889112021
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$48,804112024
Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI$48,600112024
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$26,445112021
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital$25,000112021
University of ChicagoChicago, IL$24,999112021
University of Texas-SouthwesternDallas, TX$13,246112024
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$12,597112023
Stony Brook Children's Hospital$10,180112022

14 of 31 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 6 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
9 orgs
Health Care
6 orgs
Medical Research
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202115$870,584$48,889
202215$889,369$49,995
202312$1,217,379$37,500
202413$1,729,384$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

17% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Ohio
$748K
Massachusetts
$599K
North Carolina
$543K
Pennsylvania
$468K
Washington
$423K
Michigan
$345K
New Jersey
$338K
California
$288K

Down to the city

Cincinnati, OH
$698K
Boston, MA
$599K
Seattle, WA
$423K
Philadelphia, PA
$418K
Ann Arbor, MI
$296K
San Francisco, CA
$288K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Public Health Institute9 shared recipientsThe Children's Oncology Group9 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University8 shared recipientsCystic Fibrosis Foundation8 shared recipientsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia8 shared recipientsUniversity of Pittsburgh8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $49,999 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1050 Connecticut Avenue Nw 500, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 46-4152355 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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