Minnesota · Nonprofit
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare (Minnesota) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,634,378 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ($568,888). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $397M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $362M
What Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare does
Mission
In collaboration with patients, families and partners, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare (Gillette) redefines what is possible for children with brain, bone and movement conditions through clinical leadership, research and global advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Patient services: Founded in 1897, Gillette's vision is a world in which every child is able to create their own story. In collaboration with patients, families and partners, we redefine what is possible for children with brain, bone and movement conditions through clinical leadership, research and global advocacy. Gillette is dedicated to providing high quality subspecialty care to children with complex and/or disabling conditions. During 2023, Gillette served 27,920 unique patients from all 87 Minnesota counties, 43 U.S. states and territories, and eight international countries. Gillette operates a 60 licensed-bed specialty hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota; clinics in Alexandria, Baxter, Bemidji, Burnsville, Duluth, Mankato, Maple Grove, St. Cloud, Willmar, and St. Paul, Minnesota, and outreach and virtual telemedicine collaborations across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.Gillette cares for patients who have some of the most complex, rare and traumatic conditions in pediatric medicine, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, complex orthopedic conditions, craniofacial anomalies, genetic disorders, neurological conditions and brain and spinal cord…
$236,177,958 spentof which $101,950 as grants$277,705,310 earned by the program96% of program spendingResearch: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 2023, Gillette researchers were engaged in 140 active studies to unlock new discoveries, and 81 studies were published in peer-reviewed journals to share knowledge with the world. Additionally, a growing number of active research projects were supported by extramural funding. In collaboration with clinical patient care, Gillette's research activities advance our mission to help children create their own stories.
$8,757,398 spent$3,070,717 earned by the program4% of program spendingEducation: Gillette provides graduate medical education in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and provides seminars and other educational programs with the goal to share expertise that benefits all children who have complex conditions. Gillette offers residencies and fellowships in orthopedics, and pediatric rehabilitation medicine. Through fellowships, seminars and other educational programs, Gillette strives to share expertise that benefits all children who have complex conditions.Gillette facilities are made available for training of health care students through arrangements with area educational institutions. Gillette offers residencies and fellowships in such specialties as pediatrics, orthopedics, and pediatric rehabilitation medicine. A teaching hospital, Gillette trains residents from the University of Minnesota and Henry Ford Health in Detroit, who spend one to three months under the mentorship of Gillette's medical staff. In many cases, Gillette offers physicians their only exposure during residency to patients with certain disabilities. Gillette also offers shadowing and mentorship programs for students, along with professional education opportunities in…
$2,200,952 spent$386,853 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,136,308.
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 2018 to 2019, from $343M to $397M (+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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare’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. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $186k → $342k.
11 of 48 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: $50M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare raised.
From the IRS filings of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 Specialty Healthcare has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
83% 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 Specialty Healthcare.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 25% · 2019 37% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — 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
41% of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $982k 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.
Against its field
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.6M
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 Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Gillette Community Care LLC · disregarded
- Minneonka Pediatric Therapy Center LLC · disregarded
- Kidsights LLC · disregarded
- Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Capernaum Pediatric Therapy Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare?
- Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare (Minnesota) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,634,378 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ($568,888). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,634,378 in grants to Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare?
- TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $568,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare 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 48 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