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Children's Hospital of Michigan

Detroit, MI · EIN 32-0087353. Reported 249 grants totalling $24.6M to 140 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

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 of Michigan, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E112).
2. How spread out its giving is. 140 distinct organizations, with 23% 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. 45% 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 $31,500. Half of what it reported fell between $23,100 and $64,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $1,605,678. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

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.

67 of 140 (48%) 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.

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.

• University Pediatricians $1,605,678 · 2024
  IMMUNOPHENOTYPE AND BIOMARKERS BY FLOW CYTOMETRY IN PEDIATRI,ADVANCED FELLOWSHIP TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY SUBSPEC,FUNDING A PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT ,CMED/UPEDS CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITY PEDIATRI,SUPPORTS THE ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE CLINIC,ADOLESCENT ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER,KENNETH LEWIS LECTURE,EXPENSES FOR THE MA KRINSKY ANNUAL ENDOWED LECTURE,GRAND ROUNDS PEDIATRIC/NEUROLOGY,BARRIERS TO OUTPATIENT FOLLOW UP AFTER A PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY,R1-2024-75 CRITICAL CARE FELLOW BOOTCAMP,PEDIATRIC SOLID TUMOR IMMUNOLOGICAL MICROENVIRONMENT LANDSCA,PRINCESS AND SUPERHERO PARTY,CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN - UNIVERSITY PEDIATRICIANS F,PEDIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS AT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN,MIDWEST PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY DIFFICULT PROBLEM CASE CONFE,PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY FELLOW'S EDUCATIONAL EXPENSE,RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE INHIBITION AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC A,MEMORIAL/HONORING LIFE AND FAMILY/STAFF RESOURCES
• Vhs Children's Hospital of Michigan Inc $1,290,238 · 2022
  TO SUPPORT PEDIATRIC MEDICAL EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND OTHER COMMUNITY BENEFIT PROGRAMS
• Wayne State University $948,719 · 2023
  TO SUPPORT THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE CHM PEDIATRIC SURGICAL SERVICES DIVISION
• Wayne State University School of Medicine $484,146 · 2024
  SUPPORT FOR POISON CONTROL OUTREACH PROGRAM,PEDIATRUC GENERAL SURGERY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT,TOXIN STUDY,TARGETED RELAPSED REFRACTORY AML RESEARCH,2024 NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS OF CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY CONFEREN,INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TEAM IN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ,CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE KWC ZEBRAFISH INITIATIVE,INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AT HAMTRAMCK HIGH SCHOOL-BASED
• Central Michigan University $386,405 · 2021
  CLONAL T-LGL PROLIFERATIONS IN IMMUNE DYSREGULATION CONDITIONS & ENDOWED CHAIR POSITIONS
• Regents of the University of Michigan $368,771 · 2021
  STUDY OF TUMOR DNA AND RNA TO IDENTIFY NEW DRUG TARGETS, TUMOR IMMUNE COMPOSITION TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO IMMUNOTHERAPY, AND NORMAL DNA TO IDENTIFY FAMILIAL CANCER SYNDROMES AND GENETIC CHANGES RESPONSIBLE FOR ALTERED CHEMOTHERAPY METABOLISM TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES. CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRAILS PROGRAM IN DPSCD. PALLIATIVE CARE MUSIC THERAPY AT CS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 113 of 140 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.

Giving by year

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

97% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. 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.

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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.

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 $31,500 -- 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 Michigan.
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 of Michigan'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 34 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: 3011 W Grand Blvd 218, Detroit, MI, 48202.

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