How We Use Your Gifts

Most of your gifts support programs that keep Children's a top-notch hospital: research so new and innovative it doesn't yet qualify for government funding; specialized care only we can give to children with rare illnesses and injuries; high-quality health care for kids whose families can't afford it.


Here's how we used your gifts in 2006:

Please note that most of the $16.5 million labeled "Greatest Need" goes to The Children's Fund. For us, that yellow slice is golden! It allows us to spend money in just the right places at just the right times to do the most good for the most children.

Every gift counts
Your gifts will make a difference—no matter how much you decide to give. Call it synergy or reaching critical mass—many small gifts make big things happen. And a big gift timed just right could launch a host of urgently needed new programs and initiatives.

Every gift a treasure
Every gift is carefully guarded and diligently spent only to further our unique mission. Financial experts know that about us. Our average cost per dollar raised (2001-2006) is 20.2 percent, well below the industry standard 25 percent. Moody's Investors Service—one of the nation's top independent credit rating firms—gives us a bond rating of Aa2, basically an award for excellent fiscal performance. We're now one of only five pediatric hospitals in the country to get that high vote of confidence.