About Children's Hospital
With your help, kids and families—around New England and across the world—find care, cures and hope unavailable anywhere else.
Focus Areas
Pediatric researchRare diseasesClinical care and patient servicesMental healthHealth equityGlobal health educationCommunity health programsMedical education and training
Who They Fund
patients served by community health centerslocal community residents (underserved/underserved neighborhoods)community-based organizations/health partners
Funding Style
About Children's Hospital
Children's Hospital Corporation’s grantmaking is dominated by large community partnership awards in Boston and nearby neighborhoods, with the City of Boston receiving multiple seven-figure grants across 2023, 2024, and 2025. The pattern points to a hospital-affiliated funder that channels substantial resources into local community health infrastructure rather than a broad, national grant portfolio. Among the larger awards, Boston Public Schools received $822,000 in 2025 and Boston Public Health Commission received $571,466 in 2024. The foundation also funds neighborhood-based organizations working in Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Chinatown, suggesting a focus on community health through place-based partners. Recent awards include Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc., Dot House Health, Higher Ground, Hyde Square Task Force, and Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. The names of its active programs — Community Benefits Contributions, Collaboration for Community Health, Children’s Health Equity Initiative, Metro South West Community Health Initiative, and Every Child Fund — align with a portfolio centered on access to care, health equity, patient support, and community health services. Children’s Hospital Corporation operates at sizable scale, with annual grants of $37,264,460 and total assets of $8,899,360,805. Its public grantmaking is local in scope, and nearly all grants in the dataset go to recipients in Massachusetts.
What Children's Hospital Funds
Community health is the clearest throughline in the foundation’s work. In 2024, it gave $667,617 to Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc. in Roxbury for Community Partnership, and in 2025 it awarded $331,455 to the same organization for the same purpose. Health services and access to care appear in grants to neighborhood health providers and public institutions. Dot House Health in Dorchester received $610,676 in 2024 and $357,276 in 2025, both listed as Community Partnership grants, while Boston Public Health Commission received $571,466 in 2024 and $410,000 in 2025. The foundation also supports education and youth-serving organizations. Hyde Square Task Force in Jamaica Plain received $371,238 in 2023 and $351,562 in 2024, and Boston Public Schools received $822,000 in 2025. These awards fit with its stated focus on community health, health equity, and access to care.
How Children's Hospital Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$13.3M
Total Assets
$8.9B
Total Revenue
$3.2B
Total Expenses
$3.2B
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $27K and $132K, with a median of $55K.
25th Percentile
$27K
Median
$55K
75th Percentile
$132K
Geographic Reach
Local4 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Kevin B Churchwell MD
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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