Family Resilience Fund

Since 2015, we’ve stood with families raising children with congenital heart disease and other complex medical conditions. Over the years, we’ve offered grants, resources, and practical help—and we’ve learned something powerful: families grow stronger when the people at their center are supported, equipped, and seen.

The Family Resilience Fund fuels that belief. It exists to help families build strength from the inside out—so they can lead through challenge and thrive together.

Your support helps us:

  • Invest in family growth and education — connecting parents and caregivers to world-class coaching, leadership development, and learning opportunities that ripple through the whole family.

  • Expand access through partnerships — collaborating with organizations that open new doors to wellness, stability, and opportunity.

  • Build lasting resilience — funding initiatives that strengthen families emotionally, practically, and financially.

As opportunities evolve, this fund may also meet direct needs in collaboration with trusted partners—ensuring families receive strength and support where it’s needed most.

When you give to the Family Resilience Fund, you’re investing in the heart of every home: helping families not just endure hardship, but grow stronger through it.

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What We Know About Caregiving For Children:

Caregiving for a medically complex child is one of the most demanding leadership roles on the planet.

Here’s what the numbers show:

  • 14M children in the U.S. have a special healthcare need

  • Families lose $18,000+ annually in income

  • Mothers lose $295,000+ in lifetime earnings

  • 25–40% of income goes toward unreimbursed expenses

  • 60% of caregiving parents are at risk for anxiety or depression

  • 70% of employed caregivers need to modify their work to accommodate their child’s needs.

  • Caregiving cuts work productivity by 33%

• Loss of Identity: Feeling consumed by caregiving and disconnected from self.

• Emotional Burnout: Mental and emotional exhaustion that limits growth.

• Stalled Dreams: Career and personal aspirations put on hold.

• Lack of Purpose Beyond the Role: Struggling to rediscover identity outside caregiving.

• Social Isolation: Disconnection from peers and support.

• Desire to Grow But Nowhere to Turn: Wanting to grow but lacking access and opportunity.

These invisible challenges are just as real as the medical ones.

When we invest in parents, we invest in the strength of entire families.

Beyond Caregiving: The Inner Challenges Parents Face

“The invisible challenges are just as real as the medical ones. When we invest in parents, we invest in the strength of the entire family.”

  • Ethan M. Lindberg Foundation

Families Have Always Been Our WHY:

  • Community Impact: Raised $4 million and devoted over 50,000 hours to our mission.

  • Housing Support: Provided over 3,000 nights of housing for families in hospitals, giving them one less thing to worry about during difficult times.

  • Financial Assistance: Distributed grants to families in 35 states and funded music therapy in the cardiac ICU at Boston Children’s to ease the burden and bring joy.

  • Cardiac Research: Funded research around the HLHS and single ventricle congenital heart disease, including innovative treatments for patients. We’ve created original research and published articles with our amazing research team on the financial, social, and emotional impact of having a child with complex congenital heart disease.

  • Family Advocacy: We’ve spoken at events, written articles, and advocated directly to medical teams and institutions on behalf of the needs of the families we serve.

  • Grief Support: We’ve supported grieving mothers through powerful weekend retreats that offered comfort, connection, and a path forward when they needed it most.

  • Heart Strong Message: Our message of resilience, embracing challenges, and transforming heartbreak into a force for good has resonated worldwide, inspiring others to live courageously and impact their communities.

  • Read more about the impact we’ve made here.

Take a Chance on Love.

When we lean into our stories and ask ourselves what we can do to use our experiences and the love in our hearts to make a difference in the world, amazing, life-changing things can happen.

This is the Heart Strong Story of The Wetherington Family, who took their grief and love and expanded their family through international adoption in honor of their son, Isaac.