The Children's House at Johns Hopkins Hospital Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521619682
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Phone
4107441032
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,914
Expenses
$174,676
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$603,122

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARYANNE DAVIS (CEO)
  • BRIAN MORRISON (PRESIDENT/PRESIDING OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARYANNE DAVIS (CEO): $107,899 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTIE HUNTER (TREASURER): $93,671 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN MORRISON (PRESIDENT/PRESIDING OFFICER): $68,959 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Children's House mission is to provide a family-centered residence for critically-ill children receiving treatment at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Children's Center. We believe in keeping families together amid medical crisis to reduce stress and to promote self-help and mutual support. We believe in providing the highest standards of service and unparalleled hospitality to help create a unique healing environment, where families find hope and comfort.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Children's House at Johns Hopkins Hospital (TCHJHH) has been the cornerstone of Believe in Tomorrow's hospital housing program for over 30 years. It provides overnight accommodations to families of children receiving treatment at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, MD. The facility provides overnight stays to families from every state in the U.S. and from over 90 countries worldwide. TCHJHH works with Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation, a pioneer of pediatric respite housing and a leader in pediatric hospital housing services. At the end of 2023, Believe in Tomorrow signed an agreement with Johns Hopkins University that allowed it to acquire the property of the current location and fund the construction of a new facility. While construction is pending, the hospital housing program continues to serve families. The organization partnered with the residence inn-Johns Hopkins campus to provide families a home away from home, and staff handle all scheduling and management of stays.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -280.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.