About
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals is a nonprofit fundraising organization that rallies individual donors, corporate partners, and local communities to raise money for 170 member children's hospitals across the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the organization is built around a simple promise: donations stay local, supporting the children's hospital that serves the donor's own community.
Mission
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds to support the unfunded needs of its 170 member children's hospitals, helping pay for medical equipment, research, charitable care, and patient services. Funds raised are designated as unrestricted, giving each hospital the flexibility to address its most urgent needs, and the organization states that 100% of a donation stays local to support the donor's nearby member hospital.
What they do
- Operates a continent-wide fundraising network connecting donors, corporate partners, and communities with their local children's hospitals
- Channels funds into charitable care, patient services, medical equipment, research, education, and advancement services at member hospitals
- In 2022, funding to hospitals included 54 million dollars for charitable care, 98 million dollars for patient services, 109 million dollars for equipment, 101 million dollars for advancement services, 29 million dollars for education, and 29 million dollars for research
- Has announced a 1 billion dollar fundraising goal to advance children's healthcare
History
Children's Miracle Network was established in 1983 by Marie Osmond, John Schneider, Mick Shannon, and Joe Lake. It began with a national telethon and evolved into a comprehensive fundraising network that connects communities across the U.S. and Canada with their local children's hospitals.
Scale and impact
The organization supports 170 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada. According to its website, the network raised over 473 million dollars in 2025 for member hospitals.
Financials
According to the organization's IRS Form 990 available via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 87-0387205), for the fiscal year ending December 2023 Children's Miracle Network reported total revenue of 54,185,174 dollars, total functional expenses of 49,724,510 dollars, and end-of-year total assets of 144,913,346 dollars. Note that most fundraising for hospitals occurs through local programs and partners, so network-wide totals raised for hospitals differ from the national organization's own revenue.