Children's Health Defense

Name

Children's Health Defense

Legal name

Children's Health Defense

Website

https://childrenshealthdefense.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Advocacy Nonprofit

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Rights & Protection (BPADAGAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Administration (BPAIAJAJ), Protection, Child Protection & Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Response (BPAGAAAG)

Keywords

• Health advocacy
• Nonprofit healthcare
• Vaccine safety
• Health freedom
• Children's health

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Primary funding source from individual donors who support the organization's mission to protect children's health from environmental toxins. Donors can give one-time or recurring monthly gifts, with a CHD Insider program requiring $10+/month or $150+/annually for exclusive benefits.
2. Grants from Like-Minded Organizations: Funding received from foundations and organizations aligned with CHD's health freedom mission.
3. Merchandise Sales: Revenue from the CHD Store (chdstore.org) selling books, films, and promotional merchandise. Includes a 10% Insider-only discount for members.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Children's Health Defense is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization that protects children's health through four pillars: litigation, education, science, and advocacy. It produces independent journalism via The Defender news platform, original documentary films through CHD Films, published books, and live programming on CHD.TV, while running an active litigation program with more than two dozen lawsuits, a scientific research database, grassroots advocacy campaigns, and a recurring-donation Insider membership program supported by state and international chapters.

Product overview

Children's Health Defense operates as a multi-platform advocacy organization built around four pillars: litigation, education, science, and advocacy. The core offerings include The Defender (flagship news platform), CHD.TV (streaming video service), CHD Films (documentary productions), and CHD Books (published works). Supporting services include a legal/litigation program with over two dozen active lawsuits, a research database with scientific studies, community forum, advocacy action alerts, and the CHD Insider membership program. The organization also operates a COVID Justice Resolution campaign and maintains an e-commerce store. These products work together to advance CHD's mission of ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposures, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to protect children's health.

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Products and services

• The Defender CHD's flagship daily news platform delivering independent, reader-supported coverage on health freedom, vaccine safety, medical ethics, environmental toxins, and policy. Provides original reporting and aggregation of stories often censored or ignored by mainstream media, distributed free to the public.
• CHD.TV Live and on-demand streaming platform offering original programming including expert interviews, live events, investigative series, and documentary films. CHD.TV is the video distribution arm for shows such as Doctors and Scientists and serves as the streaming home for CHD Films.
• CHD Films Original documentary productions including Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill, Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda, and Duty to Disobey. Films examine COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies, racial health disparities, and medical autonomy issues, and are screened at events and available for purchase or rental.
• CHD Books Published books including Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (co-authored with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), The Wuhan Cover-up, and other titles examining public health policy, vaccine science, and institutional overreach. Distributed through the CHD Bookstore.
• CHD Insider Program Membership program offering exclusive access to UpClose Insider Chats, insider-only tools and resources, uncensored Community Forum access, and 10% discount in the CHD Store. Requires $10+/month recurring or $150+/one-time annual donation.
• Legal/Litigation Program CHD leads more than two dozen active lawsuits protecting children's health and rights, including RICO lawsuits, vaccine mandate challenges, FOIA requests, and EMR/wireless litigation. The organization litigates to hold governments and corporations accountable, supported by an in-house General Counsel.
• Research Database Scientific research database containing peer-reviewed studies, scientific critiques, and evidence on vaccine safety, COVID-19, chronic health conditions, and environmental toxins. Includes The COVID Index as a searchable directory of evidence.
• Community Forum Online community discussion platform where members engage in discussions, share information, discover resources, and solve problems with other members and CHD staff, free from censorship. Access to the uncensored forum is part of the CHD Insider membership tier.
• Action Alerts and Advocacy Campaigns Grassroots advocacy tools including action alerts, a chapter network with over 20 U.S. state chapters and international chapters in Canada, Australia, and Ireland, a community calendar, and legislative tracking through Find Legislation and Find Your Legislators tools.
• CHD Store Online merchandise store offering books, educational materials, and promotional items to the general public, with a 10% Insider-only discount for CHD Insider members.
• Science Publications and Projects Scientific research initiatives including aluminum adjuvants and autism studies, vaccine components research, current science projects, and Science Digest publications supporting CHD's science pillar.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• STARRS (Stand Together Against Regulatory Overreach)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 May 2026Children's Health Defense and STARRS are supporting the national release of the documentary 'Duty to Disobey,' which examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies on U.S. military personnel and veterans. The film is scheduled for screenings in approximately 150 locations nationwide on June 30.
• Medical Freedom Act CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2026CHD is part of the Medical Freedom Act Coalition, combining 14 MAHA-aligned organizations to ban or restrict vaccine mandates in up to a dozen states. The coalition includes Children's Health Defense and the MAHA Institute, both tied to Kennedy's MAHA movement.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC): NVIC is the longest-standing nonprofit advocating for vaccine choice, informed consent, and freedom from mandates. It shares CHD's core mission of challenging vaccine policy and operates a similar grassroots advocacy and education model.
• Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN): ICAN is a nonprofit focused on vaccine safety advocacy and informed consent that uses FOIA litigation and digital content to advance its agenda. It overlaps directly with CHD's litigation-driven, anti-mandate positioning and digital-first content strategy.
• Health Freedom Defense Fund: HFDF is a nonprofit that litigates against vaccine mandates and health-related government overreach, including leading some of the same federal lawsuits CHD supports. Its litigation-first model and donor base overlap meaningfully with CHD's.
• Stand for Health Freedom: Stand for Health Freedom is a grassroots advocacy nonprofit focused on medical freedom, parental rights, and informed consent. It runs state-level campaigns that intersect with CHD's chapter network and policy priorities.
• Physicians for Informed Consent: PIC is a physician-led nonprofit educating on vaccine science and informed consent, providing a medical-professional credentialing layer similar to CHD's scientific advisory structure. Its mission and target audience overlap closely with CHD's scientific arm.

Emerging players

• Organic Consumers Association: OCA is a nonprofit advocacy group that campaigns against GMOs, pesticides, and corporate influence in food and health policy. CHD's editor-in-chief previously worked at OCA, indicating close ideological and operational overlap on toxin-exposure advocacy.

Broad incumbents

• Children's Defense Fund: CDF is a well-established national nonprofit advocating for at-risk children across health, education, and welfare. While not aligned on vaccine policy, it is a comparable large-scale children's advocacy organization with similar fundraising and policy engagement models.
• Autism Speaks: Autism Speaks is a major autism advocacy and research nonprofit operating in adjacent childhood disability and chronic-condition space. While its scientific positions diverge from CHD's, it serves as a comparable large-scale advocacy and fundraising organization in the children's health domain.
• March of Dimes: March of Dimes is a long-established children's health nonprofit focused on maternal and infant health. It represents a comparable legacy advocacy and research organization, even though its policy positions and funding sources differ significantly from CHD.

Others

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): AAP is the largest professional association for pediatricians and a primary institutional counterparty to CHD, currently litigating against changes to the federal vaccine schedule that CHD supports. Including it as a peer reflects its role as the dominant mainstream voice in children's health that CHD actively opposes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/childrenshd
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@CHDTVlive
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/childrens-health-defense
• Instagraminstagram.com/chdtv

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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