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Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,273,893 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($15,001,272). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.5B
Revenue FY2024
346
Funders on record
$112M
Grants received
$2.5B
Net assets
204/346 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is better cushioned than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($956M) Expenses 100 ($884M) Net assets 100 ($1.8B)2018 Revenue 111 ($1.1B) Expenses 109 ($963M) Net assets 107 ($1.9B)2019 Revenue 118 ($1.1B) Expenses 121 ($1.1B) Net assets 108 ($1.9B)2020 Revenue 124 ($1.2B) Expenses 121 ($1.1B) Net assets 115 ($2.0B)2021 Revenue 122 ($1.2B) Expenses 125 ($1.1B) Net assets 131 ($2.3B)2022 Revenue 141 ($1.3B) Expenses 145 ($1.3B) Net assets 121 ($2.1B)2023 Revenue 154 ($1.5B) Expenses 158 ($1.4B) Net assets 129 ($2.3B)2024 Revenue 160 ($1.5B) Expenses 168 ($1.5B) Net assets 139 ($2.5B)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (168)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$72M
17
$98M
18
$57M
19
$122M
20
$58M
21
$67M
22
$75M
23
$39M
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0.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 80 funders to 131 funders, grant income rose $6.7M → $14M.

31 of 346 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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: $590M from 33 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago raised.

From the IRS filings of Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 346 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

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left

67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

13%
largest funder
28%
top three
~24
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 41% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 11%diversifying over time.

“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

43% of Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 30 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 346 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $401.9M on record.

Federal$401.9M
grants $400.0Mcontracts $1.9M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$397.8M
  • Department of Defense$1.3M
  • National Science Foundation$1.2M
  • Department of Justice$972k
  • Department of Agriculture$629k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

57
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

IL
CA

Part of a family of 13 related entities

  • Almost Home Kids · exempt
  • Stanley Manne Children's Resc Institute · exempt
  • Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Fdn · exempt
  • Children's Hospital of Chicago Med Ctr · exempt
  • Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago?
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,273,893 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($15,001,272). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have?
IRS filings report 346 organizations giving $112,273,893 in grants to Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 204 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago?
Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,001,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 346funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing