About Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health unlocks philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms—raising funds for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford School of Medicine, fueling research, supporting family-centered care, and shaping programs to improve access for children with complex medical needs.
Focus Areas
Care coordinationFamily engagementSystems and standardsPediatric cancerChildren’s heart diseaseMothers & babies (maternal and neonatal health)Health equityClinical research support
Who They Fund
children and youth with special health care needs (CSHCN)children with medical complexity (CMC) and their familiesfamilies and caregivers (including parent mentors and family advocates)
About Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
The largest recent grants go to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University, underscoring a foundation built around children’s health care, research, and family-centered systems change. Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health uses large institutional grants to support hospital care, medical school research, and statewide work tied to children with special health care needs. The scale is substantial: its annual grants total $403,763,058, and its recent awards range from eight-figure hospital support to mid-six-figure projects focused on policy, care coordination, and family engagement. Recent grants show a repeated emphasis on children and youth with special health care needs, along with mothers and babies, pediatric cancer, children’s heart disease, and health equity. The foundation also supports work on language-concordant education for children with medical complexity, a parent mentor program, and family advisory council activity in neonatal care. In addition to direct support for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University, it funds outside organizations working on pediatric systems, access, and implementation. Kathryn Coubourn leads the foundation, which operates as a regular funder and gives regionally, with most grants going to recipients in California.
What Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health Funds
A major part of the foundation’s work centers on children and youth with special health care needs. It gave $382,405 to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago for a national study on oral health and dental care needs and experiences of children with special health care needs, and $338,520 to the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics for development and validation of a novel measure of ableism in pediatric healthcare. Family engagement is another clear thread. The foundation awarded $300,000 to Family Voices of California for Project Leadership Phase VII: From Activation to Impact—Engaging Families for Healthcare Systems Improvement, and $160,000 to Children Now for family engagement in children’s policymaking. Policy and systems work also appears repeatedly. It provided $350,000 to Center for Health Policy Development (nashp) for supporting state innovations for systems of care for CYSHCN, and $265,000 to National Health Law Program Inc for improving the California Children’s Services program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$121.8M
Total Assets
$342.5M
Total Revenue
$114M
Total Expenses
$161.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $44K and $265K, with a median of $99K.
25th Percentile
$44K
Median
$99K
75th Percentile
$265K
Geographic Reach
Regional13 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
KATHRYN COULBOURN
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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