Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation is a 1-star charity. It has below average disclosure with a B- results reporting grade. Its overhead spending and need for funding are both outside Ci’s reasonable range. Read Ci’s report before donating.

Founded in 2001, Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation (SCHF) strives to improve healthcare for children across Alberta. It traces its history back to 1978 when the Northern Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation began to advocate for a new children’s hospital in Edmonton. The new Stollery Children’s Hospital opened in October 2001, funded largely by a donation from Bob and Shirley Stollery. In honor of their donation, the charity changed its name to Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. SCHF raises funds to support the hospital. It also raises funds for child health programs and research at other hospitals and institutions such as the University of Alberta. The charity states the Stollery Children’s Hospital is the most specialized children’s hospital in Western Canada and it serves the largest geographic area of any children’s hospital in North America.

Stollery runs five programs: Research, Equipment and Infrastructure, Patient Care, Training, and Advocacy. SCHF reports $16.8m in program spending on its AFS. Ci has adjusted this to $17.1m to account for changes grants payable. In F2025, SCHF spent $17.1m on its programs. This included $16.3m in grants to Alberta Health.

Research was the largest program in F2025. It accounted for $6.4m or 38% of program spending. This includes funding for the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) and pediatric fellowships at the University of Alberta. In F2025, WCHRI had 211 active research projects and upwards of 200 clinical trials.

Patient Care accounted for $5.0m or 29% of program spending in F2025. This includes patient and family-centered care at Stollery and funding for Recovery Alberta and other mental health services. In F2025, Stollery recorded 316,688 patient visits and 11,961 surgeries. In F2025, 3,300 children came to Stollery for a mental health emergency.

Equipment and Infrastructure accounted for $4.6m or 27% of program spending in F2025. The foundation funds medical equipment and facility upgrades, including virtual health technology, at Stollery. In F2025, the hospital recorded 153,461 virtual health visits.

Training and Advocacy account for the remaining $1.2m or 7% of program spending.

Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation had total revenues of $44.7m in F2025. Donations accounted for $28.6m or 64% of revenues. It made $11.6m or 26% of revenues in investment income. Lotteries (net of expenses) accounted for $4.6m or 10% of revenues. In F2025, the charity spent $17.1m on its programs. This was 38% of revenues.

Administrative costs were $2.5m or 8% of revenues. Fundraising costs were $9.1m or 32% of revenues. For every dollar donated to the charity, 61 cents are available to go to the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range, which has been the case for the last three years.

The Foundation has $108.7m in cash and investments. Its funding reserves can cover 6 years and 4 months of its annual program costs. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range.

The charity had investments of $83.9m and investment income of $11.6m. In F2025, investments had a return of 11%. The average return over the last five years was 8%.

SCHF paid external fundraisers $883k to raise $18.7m in F2025. It cost the charity 5 cents to raise a dollar using external fundraisers.

The foundation is in an extraordinary capital campaign. It is raising $1 billion to build a new standalone Stollery Children's Hospital.

In F2025, SCHF paid professional fees of $3.6 million. This was equivalent to 53% of the charity's $6.8 million in total compensation costs.

Updated on June 18, 2026 by Raihan Firosh. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.