Tennessee · Nonprofit
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,248,156 to it, the largest being The Urban Child Institute ($23,381,147). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $130M
What Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation does
Mission
In partnership with donors and volunteers, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation promotes philanthropic investment to support le bonheur children's hospital's mission of providing high qualitypatient care, research and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
THE LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY BY RAISING FUNDS TO ASSIST LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING PEDIATRIC ILLNESS AND INJURY. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has served the Memphis and Mid-South region for more than 100 years. MLH has received regional and national recognition for the care it provides. Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is the region's only comprehensive pediatric hospital. Important facts about Le Bonheur Children's Hospital: -Le Bonheur is one of six campuses of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Memphis hospitals, a not-for-profit hospital corporation headquartered in Memphis, Tenn. -Le Bonheur is a regional pediatric academic medical center with 311 beds, 45 pediatric sub-specialties, 750 medical staff members and more than 3,400 employees. -Each year Le Bonheur treats more than 500,000 children with our inpatient, outpatient and community outreach services. Most patients come from our 6-state referral area and we typically serve children from all 50 states and many countries. -Le Bonheur serves as the educational training center for medical…
$10,332,232 spentof which $7,719,911 as grants100% of program spendingLchf is a subscribing member of children's miracle network hospitals. Local funds raised through sponsors of this organization support some of the hospital's greatest needs. The exposure received through partnerships with more than 400 retail cmn regional locations allows le bonheur to have a greater presence throughout the region. This presence gives opportunity for greater exposure of programs available at le bonheur.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,332,232.
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 2023 to 2024, from $114M to $143M (+26%).
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.
86% of Le Bonheur 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. 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
Jennilyn Utkov
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $8.2M → $1.9M.
18 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $20M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 69% · 2019 94% · 2020 86% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 58% — 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
34% of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
88% of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation runs a healthier operating margin 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 Le Bonheur 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Alliance Health Services Inc · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare - Memphis Hospitals · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare Central Ms Medical Associates · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare Community Care Associates · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation?
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,248,156 to it, the largest being The Urban Child Institute ($23,381,147). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $31,248,156 in grants to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation?
- The Urban Child Institute is the largest funder on record, with $23,381,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 59 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