Founded in 1983, Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation (SCHF) builds relationships and raises funds to support the work of Saskatoon City Hospital with its patients and communities that it serves. Its three main focus areas are research (78% of F2018 program costs), equipment, technology, and capital improvements (21%), and professional development (1%). Historically, funding goes mostly to equipment, however, F2018 was different because SCHF fully disbursed $5m, accumulated over several years, towards the creation of a Saskatchewan Chair for Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Research at University of Saskatchewan. In F2018, Saskatoon City Hospital serviced a total of 174,464 patient visits.  

In F2018, Saskatoon City Hospital performed 79,975 outpatient procedures, 51 medical imaging procedures, 8,149 day surgeries, 6,297 scoping procedures, 1,588 eye procedures, and serviced 5,425 inpatient discharges and 21,456 ER visits. 

Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation supported the hospital by providing $6.6 million in funding in F2018. This was to equip the hospital in its role as a provincial leader in eye care, gynecology, day surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and breast health care. The Foundation also supports medical teaching and research through programs such as the Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Center. Since 2013, the Foundation has enabled the Hospital to purchase, among other things, a 3D mammography unit, an endoscopic ultrasound, a point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department, a vein viewer, and a $2 million upgrade and modernization of the Surgical Pathology Lab. 

Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation is a medium-sized charity with donations and special events revenue of $3.6m in F2018. Its administrative costs are 15% of revenues and its fundraising costs are 4% of donations. For every dollar donated, 81 cents go to the cause, which is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.  

SCHF has $12.8m in total funding reserves, of which $4.7m is donor-endowed. This results in a program cost coverage ratio of 125%, excluding donor-endowed funds. This means SCHF can cover 1.25 years of its annual program costs using its existing reserves. SCHF used external fundraisers in F2018. The charity spent $208k to raise $1.2m from the external fundraiser for a cost of 17 cents per dollar raised. 

This charity profile is an update that has been sent to Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation for review. Changes may be forthcoming.

Updated June 28, 2019 by Parker Thomlinson.