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Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-1690977. Reported 80 grants totalling $18.6M to 35 organizations across tax years 2019-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

35organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$18.6Mgranted, 2019-2023
69%of grantees funded again the next year
73%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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E240) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 73% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $31,800; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $6,866,246. 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
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
36 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
12 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
California Health Foundation and TrustSacramento, CA$13.6M552023
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$2,510,000552023
National Medical Fellowships IncAlexandria, VA$1,017,000552023
Los Angeles Kings Hockey Club LpEl Segundo, CA$448,247112023
Partners in Care Foundation IncSan Fernando, CA$150,000442023
The UCLA FoundationLos Angeles, CA$101,800442023
Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of CommerceLos Angeles, CA$55,000332023
Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$51,000552023
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family ServicesLos Angeles, CA$50,000552023
Playfly Holdings LLCBerwyn, PA$50,000112021
Rick's Produce MarketLos Angeles, CA$50,000222021
Los Angeles Area Chamber of CommerceLos Angeles, CA$45,000332023
National Forum for Latino Healthcare ExecutivesItasca, IL$45,000222023
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Community FoundationLos Angeles, CA$44,100332023
Los Angeles City College FoundationLos Angeles, CA$40,000222022
Friends of the Los Angeles Free ClinicLos Angeles, CA$30,000332023
Cancer Support Community Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$25,000112022
Conference Board IncNew York, NY$25,000112021
Hawaii Community FoundationHonolulu, HI$25,000112023
American Diabetes Association IncArlington, VA$22,500332023
East Los Angeles College FoundationMonterey Park, CA$20,000222023
Make a Wish Foundation of Greater Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$20,000222022
Valley Presbyterian HospitalVan Nuys, CA$19,500332023
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$17,500222023
UC Santa Barbara FoundationSanta Barbara, CA$15,000112020
Unite-La IncLos Angeles, CA$15,000112021
Hollywood Chamber of CommerceLos Angeles, CA$14,400112019
South La Community FoundationLos Angeles, CA$13,500222023
Altamed Health Services CorpCommerce, CA$12,500112019
Valley Presbyterian Hospital FoundationVan Nuys, CA$12,500112019
Community PartnersLos Angeles, CA$10,000112023
Friends of Dolores Mission SchoolLos Angeles, CA$10,000112019
Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation SoleLos Angeles, CA$10,000112021
Find the ChildrenSanta Monica, CA$8,000112022
Society for Pediatric UrologyBeverly, MA$6,000112019

20 of 35 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

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 23 of 35 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.

Health Care
5 orgs
Education
5 orgs
Community Improvement
5 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Employment
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
201914$3,081,501$12,500
20208$1,798,683$27,500
202119$2,198,231$20,000
202219$3,251,072$10,000
202320$8,248,293$13,250

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

94% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.

California
$17.4M
Virginia
$1.0M
Pennsylvania
$50K
Illinois
$45K
New York
$25K
Hawaii
$25K
Massachusetts
$6K

Down to the city

Sacramento, CA
$13.6M
Los Angeles, CA
$3.1M
Alexandria, VA
$1.0M
El Segundo, CA
$448K
San Fernando, CA
$150K
Berwyn, PA
$50K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsCalifornia Community Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsKaiser Foundation Hospitals11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 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 $15,000 -- 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 California.
  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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2019-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90027.

EIN 95-1690977 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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