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Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2170833. Reported 88 grants totalling $640.4M to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$1,095,970median reported grant
$640.4Mgranted, 2020-2023
82%of grantees funded again the next year
30%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E24Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 82% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $1,095,970. Half of what it reported fell between $82,055 and $6,197,394; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $61.0M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants
$250,000 Or More
59 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Lurie Childrens Medical Group IncChicago, IL$193.4M842023
Stanley Manne Childrens Research InstituteChicago, IL$191.5M842023
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation IncChicago, IL$117.7M842023
Lurie Children's Medical Group LLCChicago, IL$61.6M742023
Lurie Children's Pediatric Anesthesia AssociatesChicago, IL$31.2M842023
Lurie Childrens Health Services LLCChicago, IL$13.1M632023
Almost Home KidsNaperville, IL$11.1M842023
Lurie Children's Primary Care LLCChicago, IL$7,269,716542023
Faculty Practice Plan IncChicago, IL$6,797,112532022
Childrens Hospital of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL$5,186,991442023
Health Partners Care Coordination LLCChicago, IL$1,289,520212020
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$145,833222023
The Childrens Heart FoundationNorthbrook, IL$62,000222023
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$45,000222022
Leadership Greater Chicago IncChicago, IL$25,000112023
Ronald Mcdonald House GlobalChicago, IL$25,000222023
The Magnificent Mile AssociationChicago, IL$18,500112023
Admin Awards LLCGarland, TX$17,200112023
Chicago Defender Charities IncChicago, IL$15,000222023
Civic FederationChicago, IL$13,000222023
Citizens United for Research in EpilepsyChicago, IL$6,000112023
Austin Coming TogetherChicago, IL$5,000112023
Chicago Youth Programs IncChicago, IL$5,000112023
YWCA Metropolitan ChicagoChicago, IL$5,000112023

16 of 24 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
3 orgs
Medical Research
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202023$129.4M$955,545
202119$144.2M$1,638,037
202218$184.1M$1,443,646
202328$182.7M$207,048

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

100% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Illinois
$640.2M
Texas
$163K
Georgia
$45K

Down to the city

Chicago, IL
$629.1M
Naperville, IL
$11.1M
Dallas, TX
$146K
Northbrook, IL
$62K
Atlanta, GA
$45K
Garland, TX
$17K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $1,095,970 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 225 E Chicago Ave Box 282, Chicago, IL, 60611.

EIN 36-2170833 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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