Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-1690977. Reported 106 grants totalling $24.4M to 45 organizations across tax years 2019-2024, 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:
- 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 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.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,600 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.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Health Foundation and Trust | Sacramento, CA | $17.9M | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $3,010,000 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| National Medical Fellowships Inc | Alexandria, VA | $1,142,000 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Kings Hockey Club Lp | El Segundo, CA | $895,849 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Partners in Care Foundation Inc | San Fernando, CA | $165,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $127,300 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Altamed Foundation | Commerce, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce | Los Angeles, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles City College Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Forum for Latino Healthcare Executives | Itasca, IL | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $61,000 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $56,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Playfly Holdings LLC | Berwyn, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rick's Produce Market | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $40,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Community Garden Council | Los Angeles, CA | $35,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Presbyterian Hospital | Van Nuys, CA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Conference Board Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hollywood Food Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Diabetes Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| East Los Angeles College Foundation | Monterey Park, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Make a Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Women in Health Administration of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $16,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| UC Santa Barbara Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Unite-La Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hollywood Chamber of Commerce | Los Angeles, CA | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| South La Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Altamed Health Services Corp | Commerce, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Presbyterian Hospital Foundation | Van Nuys, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Dolores Mission School | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Hospital Association of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| L a Works Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation Sole | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Find the Children | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Para Los Ninos | Los Angeles, CA | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Hispanic Health Foundation | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society for Pediatric Urology | Beverly, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| L a Family Housing Corporation | N Hollywood, CA | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
21 of 45 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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.
- California Health Foundation
SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AT HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS IN CALIFORNIA - Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California
DONATION/SPONSORSHIP OF GALA EVENT - HEROES FOR THE HEALING - National Medical Fellowships Inc
Primary Care Leadership Program Support and Donations - Partners in Care Foundation Inc
22ND ANNUAL TRIBUTE DINNER - The UCLA Foundation
UCLA HPMAA ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER 2024 - Los Angeles City College Foundation
LACC COMMUNITY GARDEN CONTRIBUTION/SPONSORSHIP AND VIRTUAL GALA
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 14 | $3,081,501 | $12,500 |
| 2020 | 8 | $1,798,683 | $27,500 |
| 2021 | 19 | $2,198,231 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $3,251,072 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $8,248,293 | $13,250 |
| 2024 | 26 | $5,850,943 | $15,000 |
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
95% 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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 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.
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