More Ways to Give
Corporate Partnerships
Corporations support a wide range of our cutting-edge programs. These crucial partnerships support more than just our mission and the families we serve — they can also benefit your organization, your employees, your clients and more.
A Gift in Your Will
Gifts in wills — of any amount — have helped fund medical discoveries and innovations that have improved pediatric healthcare and saved countless children’s lives.
Shop for CHOP
You can shop and dine to support CHOP! Discover which businesses will donate a portion of their sales. You can also become a Shop for CHOP partner, showing your customers that you want to advance CHOP’s mission.
Grandparents Fund
Grandparents play a special role in the lives of our patients. You can honor your grandchild and help other children with a gift to the Grandparents Fund, which benefits CHOP’s Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy services.
Donate to Child Life
You can bring a smile to children at CHOP and some normalcy through play time by helping to provide new toys, craft supplies, books, video games and more.
Frontier Programs
These programs are a trailblazing group of initiatives that pioneer new advances in children’s health at an astonishing pace. You can help advance this visionary research that translates to cutting-edge clinical care.
Ways employees can give
As an employee, giving to CHOP allows you to contribute even further to CHOP’s longstanding legacy of excellence.
More donation options
- Cash gifts, made online, by mail or by wire transfer, may offer you a charitable tax deduction.
- Stocks and mutual funds: By making this type of gift, you can avoid paying capital gains tax that would otherwise be due if you sold these assets.
- Donor Advised Fund (DAF): If you have established a DAF, consider recommending a grant to CHOP.
- Qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA:
- To qualify:
- You must be 70 1/2 years or older when you make the transfer to CHOP.
- Your gift must be transferred directly from your IRA to CHOP.
- You can give any amount up to $105,000 per year for an individual or $210,000 for a married couple (to all charities).
- Your transfer must be executed by December 31 to receive tax benefits this year.
- Next steps:
- Contact your IRA administrator to request a qualified charitable distribution to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation for a specific amount or use your IRA checkbook to make a distribution directly from your account to CHOP. Include our Tax ID number: Tax ID #23-2237932.
- Checks should be delivered to the following address: CHOP Foundation, PO Box 781352, Philadelphia, PA 19178-1352
- Because your IRA custodian may not include your name on your QCD, please contact us to share the name of the custodian, the amount of the transfer and any special designation. This helps us fulfill your intent for your gift and provide the correct IRS acknowledgment.
- To qualify:
- Real estate: Including your home, vacation property, farmland or commercial property. If you own appreciated real property, you can avoid paying capital gains tax by making a gift to CHOP.
Tax information
The CHOP Foundation is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 with a federal tax ID (EIN) of 23-2237932. Read more about tax benefits from your giving.
- Tax receipts for gifts of $250 and above are mailed to the donor’s preferred address within 15 business days after the donation is received. Receipts for gifts below this threshold will be provided upon request.
- All gifts made by credit card will receive a tax receipt to the email address provided in the online giving form. Please use your preferred email address when making a gift online.
- Please note that the CHOP Foundation does not issue tax receipts for gifts legally made from Donor Advised Funds. The DAF sponsor handles all record keeping, disbursements, and tax receipts.
If you need a copy of your tax receipt, please email us at giving@chop.edu or call 267-426-5332.