IMPACT
Our Reach.
Since the inception of The Brett Boyer Foundation, we’ve been able to expand our mission to help more families year after year. This map represents our reach, the services we provide to each of our partner hospitals, as well as our partnerships. Hover over or tap each yellow state for a detailed look.
PARTNER HOSPITALS
IMPACT
2024 Achievements.
We’re proud of our growth and momentum and are pleased to share our most recent achievements below..
Family & Provider Support
220+ Families helped financially
1000+ Meals provided to families and providers in our partner hospitals
Hundreds of clothing & comfort items delivered to inpatient families on our partner hospitals
194% increase in family support in 2024
“Cardiac families often experience changes in income, exhaust their paid work leave, and are left with increased expenses related to their child’s care. The Brett Boyer Foundation helps bring much needed relief to our CHOP cardiac families.”
“The little Mother’s Day gift that I got while my daughter was in the hospital seriously meant so much to me that it brought me to tears. It was one of the first times I didn’t feel alone.”
Mental Health Support
440+ Therapy sessions funded via our partnership with Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation
Continued to provide full or partial funding of mental health professionals at 2 partner hospitals
Launched a bi-weekly Squires Support Group for inpatient families at partner hospital
“My husband and I sought out therapy after losing our heart warrior. It was helpful, but our therapist had no idea what CHD was or what we witnessed together. The therapy I have now received through Ollie’s Branch funded by BBF has changed my life.”
“As a way to increase normalization of the hospital environment and encourage positive self-care and coping, the Brett Boyer Foundation partnered with us to start our Squires Unit Support Group, which has already demonstrated its positive effect on our unit in the short year that we have been doing it!”
CHD Research
2025 grant awards brings total funded research to 25 projects in 19 institutions
FDA begins to regulate the partial heart transplant bringing total procedures to 24 and counting
“Partial heart transplantation wouldn’t be here today without the research funding of The Brett Boyer Foundation and I’m pleased to say that The Foundation continues to support partial heart transplantation in order to help more and more children with this really revolutionary approach.”
“We are incredibly thankful for the Brett Boyer Foundation and all they are doing to advance research and promote awareness for congenital heart disease.”
Down Syndrome Awareness
Ellen Boyer named Best Buddies 2024 “Mother Of The Year” and given their Spirit of Leadership award
A 5th recipient is awarded the annual Brett Boyer Foundation Scholarship in partnership with Ruby’s Rainbow
“Ellen has built an incredible organization out of what most people would see as a heartbreaking tragedy, to lose a child at 7 months of age to CHD, but to be so proud to have a child with Down syndrome - she turned that tragedy into a gift for our communities.”