Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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- Income
- $1.7 billion
- Spending
- $1.5 billion
- Spent on programs
- 86%
- Reserves
- 8.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 85%
- Employees
- 8,151
- Volunteers
- 733
- Highest pay
- $2.6 million, ex-officio director/president & ceo lch
Source: Form 990 for the year ending August 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 89 out of 100. Higher than 83% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 8.8 months of spending.
Debt
16 of 20It owes 26% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 14% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 13% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1586% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending August 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 53% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2549 of 51 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending August 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $1.3 billion spent. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ("Lurie Children's") in Chicago, Illinois owns and operates the only full-service, independent, self-governing pediatric hospital in Illinois. This not-for-profit, tertiary care hospital, founded in 1882, provides patient care 24 hours-per-day, 7 days-per-week. Lurie Children's has 364 licensed beds and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and related ancillary services. Lurie Children's provides more care than any other hospital provider in Illinois in nearly every pediatric medical and surgical specialty. As a major academic tertiary care medical center, Lurie Children's has served patients from all 50 states and more than 40 countries. Lurie Children's is a designated level I pediatric trauma center for the city of Chicago, with a level IV neonatal intensive care unit ("NICU") that serves as a regional referral center in the state of Illinois perinatal network. Lurie Children's ability to treat the most critically ill infants in its NICU is demonstrated by statistics that show over half of all transports into its NICU were from level III nurseries in Illinois. In U.S. News & World Report 2025 rankings, Lurie Children's ranked in the top hospitals across the nation and ranked in 11 featured specialties, including for Urology (6th), Nephrology (7th), and Neurology & Neurosurgery (7th). In 2016, Lurie Children's was named a level I pediatric surgery center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and remains the only children's hospital in Illinois to earn this status. Level I verification - the highest of three - is awarded by a multi-organizational taskforce led by the ACS, the body responsible for setting the nation's standards for quality of surgical care, practice and training. In FY 2025, Lurie Children's served more than 266,000 children and adolescents who came from all over the state of Illinois and beyond to access the more than 70 specialties offered by Lurie Children's. Lurie Children's is the largest provider of Medicaid services to Illinois children. Lurie Children's pediatric specialist physicians provide more specialty care to children insured by the state of Illinois' All Kids (Medicaid) program than any other specialty care provider. More than half of the hospital inpatient services are provided to children insured by Medicaid. Lurie Children's maintains a financial assistance policy under which it provides healthcare services free of charge or at a greatly reduced rate to children whose families are unable to pay for the charges associated with their medical care. For FY 2025, the total unreimbursed care and community benefit (as reported in the FY 2025 audit of Lurie Children's and its affiliates) provided by Lurie Children's and its affiliates was approximately $198.4 million. This amount includes $112.2 million in costs associated with unreimbursed services and financial assistance provided by Lurie Children's and its affiliated physician groups, as well as $181.4 million for other community benefits including, but not limited to, resident and fellow expenses, research funding, operation of a community clinic support and mobile health unit, child advocacy programs, and the provision of language assistance, pastoral care, social work, art and music therapies, hospital volunteer services, transplant family housing and other family support services. Lurie Children's undertakes a broad range of services and activities in addition to patient care that support its charitable mission. Lurie Children's functions as a teaching and research institution whose efforts have contributed considerably to improvements in the quality of life and healthcare for children. Lurie Children's supports community medical needs through a variety of outreach programs and educational programs. In December 2001, Lurie Children's became the first pediatric hospital in the nation and the first hospital in Illinois to receive the magnet award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Lurie Children's was awarded this designation again in 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2024. Today, while the status is the most sought-after nation-wide honor in hospital nursing, less than 1% of hospitals have achieved the accomplishment of maintaining the designation six times. Lurie Children's is one of the major pediatric teaching hospitals in the U.S., serving as the pediatric teaching facility and the primary pediatric practice site of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine ("NUFSM") for resident physicians, fellows and medical students in pediatric specialties and sub-specialties. This program is consistently one of the most sought after in the country. McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University ("McGaw") manages the training of hundreds of resident-level trainees and trainees at the fellow level. Of those, Lurie Children's is the primary teaching site for approximately 100 pediatric residents and over 100 pediatric subspecialty fellows. In addition, trainees from the adult programs of McGaw rotate to Lurie Children's for varying lengths of time to fulfill the pediatric component of their training program. Lurie Children's role as a regional referral center for a variety of pediatric diseases and illnesses has created many research opportunities to study and treat them. Lurie Children's research arm, Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute ("Manne Research Institute"), is one of the nation's few centers dedicated solely to pediatric research. See the tax information return of Lurie Children's affiliate, Manne Research Institute (36-3357005). During FY25, Lurie Children's advanced its community health programming through the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities, which leads the hospital's triennial Community Health Needs Assessment that informs our initiatives and strategies. Magoon Institute initiatives include direct services, education, outreach, organizational capacity building and advocacy for commu
Source: Form 990 for the year ending August 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending August 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since April 1923.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
Could it be confused with another charity? Worth knowing.
A much larger organization has a similar name: Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation (Chicago, IL), EIN 36-3357006. If that is the one you meant, check the EIN before giving.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
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