Illinois · Nonprofit
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 362 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,041,152 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($15,001,272). 212 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5B
- Funders on record
- 362
- Grants received
- $120M
- Net assets
- $2.5B
What Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago does
Mission
Ann & robert h. Lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. As the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: - pediatric health care delivery - research into the prevention, causes and treatment of diseases that affect children - education for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and public health practitioners - advocacy for children as a charitable organization, we serve children and their families to the best of our abilities and to the limits of our resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ("Lurie Children's") in Chicago, Illinois owns and operates the only full-service, independent, self-governing pediatric hospital in Illinois. This not-for-profit, tertiary care hospital, founded in 1882, provides patient care 24 hours-per-day, 7 days-per-week. Lurie Children's has 364 licensed beds and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and related ancillary services. Lurie Children's provides more care than any other hospital provider in Illinois in nearly every pediatric medical and surgical specialty. As a major academic tertiary care medical center, Lurie Children's has served patients from all 50 states and more than 40 countries. Lurie Children's is a designated level I pediatric trauma center for the city of Chicago, with a level IV neonatal intensive care unit ("NICU") that serves as a regional referral center in the state of Illinois perinatal network. Lurie Children's ability to treat the most critically ill infants in its NICU is demonstrated by statistics that show over half of all transports into its NICU were from level III nurseries in Illinois. In U.S. News & World Report 2025 rankings, Lurie…
$1,273,090,890 spentof which $211,554,685 as grants$1,499,488,404 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,273,090,890.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.7B to $3.1B (+15%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Thomas P Shanley MD
Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO LCH
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 80 funders to 131 funders, grant income rose $6.7M → $14M.
32 of 362 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 362 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 12% 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
63% 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.
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
44% 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.
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 66% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Against its field
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is better cushioned than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
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.
- 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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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
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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 362 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,041,152 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($15,001,272). 212 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 362 organizations giving $120,041,152 in grants to Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 212 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 362 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing