Illinois · Nonprofit
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103 to it, the largest being CARNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $0
What Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc does
Mission
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective January 1, 2025, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation, Inc., Children's Hospital of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan, Inc., Lurie Children's Pediatric Anesthesia Associates, Lurie Children's Primary Care, Inc., and Lurie Children's Multispecialty Group, Inc. merged with and into Pediatric Faculty Foundation, Inc. Also effective on January 1, 2025, Pediatric Faculty Foundation, Inc. changed its name to Lurie Children's Medical Group, Inc.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation, Inc. ("LCSF") is an Illinois not for profit corporation and an organization described under section 501(c)(3) of the code. On January 1, 2019, Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center ("Parent") (FEIN 36-3357004) became the sole corporate member of LCSF. LCSF employs pediatric surgical specialists and subspecialists. Such physicians are based and practice at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ("Lurie Children's"), another affiliated entity of LCSF, and at the Lurie Children's outreach locations. Lurie Children's offers over 70 types of pediatric subspecialty care, more than any other Illinois hospital. LCSF employs pediatric surgical specialists and subspecialists who provide surgical services to patients of Lurie Children's in the areas of cardiac surgery, fetal surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, and urology. LCSF provides services regardless of the patient's ability to pay. It accepts patients covered by Medicare and Medicaid and provides financial assistance under its financial assistance policy.
$35,988,490 spent$24,509,227 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,988,490.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 1%. 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Thomas P Shanley Md
Ex-officio director/president & CEO lch
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $167M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago). These are real filings, and they are not money Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc’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
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
“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
91% of Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Almost Home Kids · exempt
- Stanley Manne Children's Resc Institute · exempt
- Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Fdn · exempt
- Children's Hospital of Chicago Med Ctr · exempt
- Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc?
- Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103 to it, the largest being CARNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,103 in grants to Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc?
- CARNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc 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 2020–2024), 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