Minnesota · Nonprofit
Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,117,758 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,100,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation (Foundation) is to raise money, build awareness, and develop relationships in support of the patient care, education, and research activities of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
RESEARCH: Gillette research activities concentrate on clinical applications devoted to finding effective medical interventions for disabling conditions and their related effects. Research at Gillette consists of seven major emphasis areas (gait and motion analysis, health services, neurosciences, orthopedics, pain and comfort, rehabilitation, and spine), all of which seek to improve the lives of children who have disabilities and complex conditions. During 2024, Gillette researchers were engaged over 130 active studies to unlock new discoveries, with many studies being published in peer-reviewed journals to share knowledge with the world. In collaboration with clinical patient care, Gillette's research activities advance our mission to help children create their own stories. The Foundation grants supported various Gillette research initiatives, including direct program studies, such as Spine Institute, Cerebral Palsy Institute, and other patient focused research activities, and research infrastructure.
$3,982,555 spentof which $3,982,555 as grants44% of program spendingPATIENT CARE: The Foundation raises money to support activities related to the Gillette mission. This includes offering financial aid to patients based on need, whether or not they have health insurance, and offering charity care to patients who are financially unable to pay all or part of their medical bills. Gillette evaluates each situation based on a patient's income, assets and other resources, and the hospital assists with establishing manageable payment plans (including co-pays and co-insurance). For people without insurance, Gillette charges for care in accordance with the 501(r) guidelines. If patients inform Gillette that they will have a difficult time meeting their financial obligations, Gillette helps patients in their efforts to qualify for public assistance or the Gillette charity care program. Income eligibility for the program is based on national poverty guidelines. Gillette will never turn away a family due to an inability to pay for treatment. The Foundation also provides grants to support startup and expansion for new and/or strategic patient care initiatives. This investment includes the Gillette Pediatric Spine Institute, which advances the care of children…
$3,699,486 spentof which $3,483,811 as grants41% of program spendingCAPITAL: The Foundation raises funds to support Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare's mission of providing specialized health care for children and adults who have complex and rare medical conditions. The Foundation's support allows Gillette to further its vision of helping patients realize their full potential. This includes raising contributions for improvements to capital assets of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, which ensures modern, efficient and effective technology and resources are available to serve our patients. During 2024, Gillette transferred funds for capital projects related to various strategic and patient care initiatives, including construction of new clinic and specialty center space on the main St Paul campus, various acquisitions of medical equipment used in patient care, and new and innovative information technology investments to advance the Spine and Cerebral Palsy Institutes and other clinical and surgical services.
$1,279,817 spentof which $1,279,817 as grants14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,961,858.
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 2019 to 2020, from $31M to $40M (+30%).
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.
73% of Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Barbara Joers
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathy Tune
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $232k → $1.2M.
19 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
30% 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 Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 62% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 41% — 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
57% of Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of Gillette Children's 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. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 2 related entities
- Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare · exempt
- Capernaum Pediatric Therapy Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation?
- Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,117,758 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,100,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $9,117,758 in grants to Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gillette Children's 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 84 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