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CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER

CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,996 to it, the largest being CARDIAC SURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOU ($142,282). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$174k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$199k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Cardiac Surgery Clinical Research Center does

Mission

To further enhance the quality of life and longevity of the cardiovascular patient through the research and development of new and innovative technologies which are made available to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the organization is to perform research and the evaluation of new technologies for the advancement of cardiovascular therapies.

    $217,590 spent$77,089 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $217,590.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 100 ($324k) Net assets 100 ($555k)2020 Revenue 168 ($270k) Expenses 128 ($415k) Net assets 74 ($410k)2021 Revenue 292 ($469k) Expenses 107 ($349k) Net assets 96 ($530k)2022 Revenue 171 ($274k) Expenses 110 ($358k) Net assets 80 ($446k)2023 Revenue 245 ($394k) Expenses 134 ($435k) Net assets 73 ($405k)2024 Revenue 108 ($174k) Expenses 117 ($380k) Net assets 36 ($199k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (108)Expenses (117)Net assets (36)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $428k to $210k (−51%).

$569k
$423k
$547k
$464k
$428k
$210k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$164k
’19
−$144k
’20
$120k
’21
−$83k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$206k
’24
6.4
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed333335
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $24k → $101k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
total
$56k
funders
2
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 61% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−119% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cardiac Surgery Research & Education Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER?
CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,996 to it, the largest being CARDIAC SURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOU ($142,282). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $197,996 in grants to CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER?
CARDIAC SURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOU is the largest funder on record, with $142,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARDIAC SURGERY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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