Through your gift, you will improve care for children and support critical research.

There are many convenient ways to get involved and donate.

Mail:

Send a check payable to "Children's Hospital Foundation" to:
Children's Hospital Foundation
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010

Phone

Call the Children's Hospital Foundation at (301)565-8500

Online

As a nonprofit, Children's National relies on the generous support of donors to improve the health of children in the nation's capital, across the country, and around the world.

When you give to Children's National, you:

• Give more kids a chance for a healthy life.
• Help meet the diverse health needs of families in our community.
• Ensure that every child in our area can receive the same level of care, regardless of their family's ability to pay.
• Help cover the costs of specialized care, family support, groundbreaking research, and more.

Donations help our doctors, nurses, researchers, and staff support children through:

• Specialized equipment, facilities, and therapies that meet the unique needs of children.
• Covering the cost of uncompensated care for children whose families are uninsured.
• Research to develop innovative therapies, improve outcomes, and cure deadly childhood diseases.
• Community benefits like free wellness and diagnostic screenings, mobile vans, and public education about important health issues.

Whether you make a large or small gift, you can make a difference for a child who is sick or injured. At Children's National, we take extraordinary care to steward our financial resources wisely.

Each year we see approximately 300,000 children, who come from Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, and from across the country and around the world. Our nationally recognized physicians and nurses provide the best possible care, and we offer services that support the entire family. Because we are solely focused on children, philanthropy allows us to provide specialized services that are not reimbursed by insurance, such as:

• music and arts programs
• special performances
• counseling
• specialized equipment like a child-friendly MRI machine that looks like a submarine!

Philanthropy also helps us close the gap between the services we bill and the amount we're able to collect. In fiscal year 2013, Children's National provided nearly $2 billion -- $1,949,162,000 in services for inpatients and outpatients, including physician care, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, nursing care, and room and board. Because government and other insurance carriers do not pay the total charges for the care delivered, we did not collect $1,067,433,000. In addition, we provided $46,213,000 in uncompensated care, which is possible only because of philanthropy.