Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation is a two-star charity with a below-average results reporting grade. It is financially transparent and based on its current funding reserves, it can cover around 32 years of program costs.

Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation (JPCHF) was founded in 1992 in Saskatchewan. It was formerly known as Children’s Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan. On May 30, 2017, Jim Pattison announced that he would donate $50m to the foundation. In honour of his donation, the foundation and hospital were renamed after him.

The foundation raises funds to improve maternal and children’s health care at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital. It is the only hospital in Saskatchewan that specializes in neonatal and pediatric care.

JPCHF funded three main programs in F2022. It disbursed a total of $2.3m among three categories: Equipment and Technology, Patient Care, and Research and Education.

The foundation disbursed 52% of its total grants to Equipment and Technology. This funding provides new equipment to Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital. JPCHF states that it purchased over 100 pieces of equipment for the hospital. It also funded a mobile dental and mental health bus which travels to the First Nations communities in the Saskatoon area. In F2022, the bus reached 690 mental health patients and 250 dental patients. 

In F2022, 34% of total grants went to Patient Care. These funds help support families of children receiving care, as well as support the ongoing services at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital. JPCHF reports that it helped with 20,009 total children's emergency service visits. It also reports that the hospital helped deliver 5,466 babies and performed 3,567 total pediatric surgeries.

Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation allocated 14% of its total grants to Research and Education. These funds are for programs to support pediatric research.

Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation received $13.0m in donations and special events revenue in F2022. Administrative costs are 7% of revenues (less investment income) and fundraising costs are 12% of donations and special events revenue. This results in total overhead spending of 19%. For every dollar donated, 81 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.

The foundation has $76.2m in total reserve funds. These reserve funds are JPCHF’s cash and investments. Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation has $10.0m in its Endowment fund. However, JPCHF does not disclose donor-endowed funds separate from board-endowed funds. As such, no deduction for endowments is made to funding reserves. As of F2022, Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation has 32 years of annual program costs covered by its current reserves. 

JPCHF's funding reserves contributed $682k in investment income in F2022, at an estimated rate of return of 1% ($4.1m at a rate of return of 6% in F2021). Over the last eight years, Ci estimates that its investment returns have averaged 3%.

In F20212 JPCHF paid external fundraisers $5.4k. These external fundraisers raised $128.5k in donations. This means it costs JPCHF $0.04 to raise $1 using external fundraisers.   

Charity Intelligence has sent this update to Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming. 

Updated on May 26, 2023 by Alessandra Castino.