Minnesota · Nonprofit
ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,568,454 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($15,000,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $0
What Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation is to raise, steward and disburse funds for the benefit of abbott northwestern hospital and the communities it serves. The foundation is a separate not-for-profit entity dedicated to supporting the hospital and is governed by a separate board. Abbott northwestern hospital is the twin cities' largest not-for-profit hospital. Each year, the hospital provides comprehensive health care for more than 200,000 patients and their families from the twin cities area and throughout the upper midwest. The hospital is routinely named in national rankings of the nation's best hospitals, including being named in u.s. News and world report's "america's top 50 hospitals" list for ten consecutive years. Abbott northwestern hospital is a part of allina health system, a family of hospitals, clinics and care services.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Operations: - residents, nurses and staff education, training, and certification to enhance their patient care skills. - operational support for the virginia piper cancer institute. - emergency financial assistance for patients to help with medical and everyday expenses. - equipment funding for patient nail care, safety restraints and room maintenance - caring for colleagues program to assist staff in financial emergency situations.
$748,026 spentof which $748,026 as grants70% of program spendingResearch: - an intern research program to build skills and growth knowledge in cardiology and research; support interns in evaluating their academic and career goals; and develop professional skills. - a registry study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of implantable leadless pacemakers and defibrillators. Consolidate and share data to assess the reliability, longevity, and clinical complications associated with leadless pacemakers and defibrillators from multiple manufacturers to help determine the most viable options for cardiovascular patients.
$220,380 spentof which $220,380 as grants21% of program spendingAbbott northwestern's phillips eye institute: - funding to offset the cost of providing transportation to patients who have limited or no other means of getting to anw-pei for eye surgery and other eye related appointments. - providing vision screening to community school children. Work with families to identify and remove barriers to receive treatment. - the kirby puckett eye mobile is a mobile eye clinic that travels to minneapolis and st. Paul public schools to provide eye exams as well as community vision screening services for children and adults at community or school events.
$98,024 spentof which $98,024 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,066,430.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $114M to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jason Paulnock
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 25 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $10M.
12 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 50% · 2019 28% · 2020 56% · 2021 49% · 2022 67% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
28% of ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 32 related entities
- Allina Associated Foundation · exempt
- Allina Health System · exempt
- Mercy & Unity Hospitals Foundation · exempt
- Courage Kenny Foundation · exempt
- United Hospital Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,568,454 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($15,000,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $26,568,454 in grants to ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION?
- WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 67 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing