On Mar. 25, 2014, the University of Minnesota Foundation announced that Caroline Amplatz had made early fulfillment of several pledged gifts in support of pediatric care, education and research and has relinquished naming rights to the childrenﾒs hospital, creating an opportunity for another named donor.

In 2009, Amplatz pledged $50-million to the Foundation to support the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. The hospital was named for her father, Kurt Amplatz, MD, who was a professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota from 1957 to 1997.