Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK
CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK (Minnesota) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,145,419 to it, the largest being MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($2,235,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Children's Heartlink does
Mission
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming. The programs team consolidated leadership in asia under one country director. The senior technical advisor for africa was named to oversee exploration of partnerships in angola, ghana and namibia. The programs team fully executed our blended model (in-person and remote training), conducting 27 in-person visits, 124 remote trainings, and 10 community trainings reaching non-chl partners. In total 4,437 clinicians were trained. This was acheived by organizing a total of 603 volunteer engagements, resulting in 1,037 training days, valued at 1,064,525 in donated time. Innovation and growth: significant use of childrens heartlink centers of excellence (coe) and partners for south-to-south training continued this year. Chl together with one of our coes demonstrated the ability of extended reality technology to simplify the understanding of complext defects and improve treatment planning in a pilot project. In addition, a novel pathways of care partnership was developed with a leader in telemedicine screening in brazil and funded for execution next year. The cumulative result of these efforts are that 91% of our partners made progress towards becoming a coe as planned,…
$1,420,313 spent67% of program spendingOutreach accomplishments: we continued to expand our efforts to engage existing and new partners and supporters. We have issued regular newsletters to supporters, partners and volunteers. We grew our social media audience through consistent, engaging posts and amplified our mission through collaboration with partner hospitals, volunteer institutions and corporate partners. We continued leveraging our website with monthly blogs and launched new website optimized for supporter engagement and growth. Additionally, we continued to host webinars for advocacy and education opportunities for supporters, volunteers and healthcare professionals in low-to middle-income countries. We also continued our membership in global health working groups/organizations.
$111,271 spent5% of program spendingAdvocacy accomplishments: Children's Heartlink continued to participate in high-level global coalitions and to lead global advocacy for better recognition of pediatric and congenital heart disease by policymakers and governments. Chl continues to lead the global coalition for pediatric and congenital hearts advocating for childhood-onset heart disease recognition globally and strong government outreach for support of a world health assembly resolution for childhood-onset heart disease. We participated in who consultation on the development of a framework for screening, diagnosis and management of birth defects and provided valued technical expertise on the most common birth defect, congenital heart disease. We continued leading global action for congenital conditions, a coalition with other nongovernmental organizations working on addressing the burden of birth defects, advocating globally through advocacy and awareness building events during high-level multilateral gatherings. We generated and shared evidence to inform policy and practice guidelines chl staff delivered 5 presentations at international meetings, organized 6 events, 1 ministry of health stakeholders meeting, and…
$600,568 spentof which $211,020 as grants28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,132,152.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $3.6M (+46%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Taryn Lynch
Chair & ec c
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $253k → $1.8M.
17 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 64% · 2019 49% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 46% · 2023 57% — 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
52% of CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
73% of CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK?
- CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK (Minnesota) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,145,419 to it, the largest being MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($2,235,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $8,145,419 in grants to CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK?
- MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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