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St. Jude and its fundraising arm ALSAC state that 82 cents of every dollar received has gone to support treatment, research and the future needs of the hospital over the past seven years . Independent...
St. Jude (ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) consistently earns top marks from major charity evaluators — Charity Navigator shows a 4/4 star (99%) consolidated rating for ALSAC/St. Jude (EIN...
St. Jude/ALSAC reports that 82 cents of every dollar received goes to support treatment, research and the hospital’s future needs — a figure St. Jude repeats across its FAQ and financial pages . Inves...
St. Jude’s public materials and FAQs state that 82 cents of every dollar received goes to “support the treatment, research and future needs” of the hospital — a figure the institution repeats across i...
St. Jude’s own reporting says 82 cents of every dollar received goes to support treatment, research and patient care over the past seven years (82%) . Investigative reporting from ProPublica and relat...
St. Jude’s combined operation with its fundraising arm ALSAC runs at roughly a $2+ billion annual scale and relies on donors for about 85–89% of its operating funds; ALSAC historically supplies the va...
St. Jude and its fundraising arm ALSAC publicly report that roughly 81–82 cents of every dollar goes to research, treatment and hospital operations while the remaining 18 cents cover fundraising and a...
St. Jude’s own materials state that five cents of every donated dollar — 5% — goes to administration costs . St. Jude also reports that over the last seven years 82 cents of every donated dollar went ...
St. Jude’s fundraising arm ALSAC reported roughly $2.7 billion in revenue with about $836 million (≈31%) spent on fundraising and $1.4 billion (≈51%) transferred to the hospital in one recent filing, ...
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has faced high-profile scrutiny about its finances and donor messaging — notably ProPublica’s 2024 investigation alleging large reserves and gaps between fundrais...
St. Jude states that 82 cents of every dollar received goes to support treatment, research and future needs — a figure repeated on its FAQ and financial pages . Independent reporting by ProPublica hig...
St. Jude / ALSAC continues to receive top marks from major charity evaluators: Charity Navigator shows a 99% score and a four‑star rating in recent profiles , Give.org lists ALSAC as an Accredited Cha...
Charity evaluators mostly rate St. Jude (and its fundraising arm ALSAC) highly on financial accountability and transparency: Charity Navigator gives ALSAC/St. Jude a four‑star, near‑top score (99% or ...
St. Jude’s share of total dollars going to “patient care and research” has been the subject of competing narratives: the hospital and its charity ALSAC report a high combined percentage (commonly cite...
ProPublica’s reporting rested on nonprofit tax filings, internal financial disclosures and interviews to calculate how much St. Jude and its fundraising arm ALSAC raised, spent on fundraising, and set...
St. Jude’s share of revenue coming from donations (largely raised by ALSAC) has varied by year but typically constitutes a clear majority of the hospital’s total revenue—roughly between about 59% in o...
Form 990 filings make clear that ALSAC is the dedicated fundraising arm for St. Jude and that its annual returns document large transfers of donor support to the hospital while also disclosing substan...
St. Jude’s public materials report that 82 cents of every dollar received goes to “patients and research,” combining clinical care and research spending rather than isolating a single “research and de...
St. Jude reports that "82 cents of every dollar received" supports treatment, research and future needs, a combined figure the institution uses to summarize donor impact rather than a strict split bet...
A straight read of St. Jude’s recent audited disclosures shows only modest reported investment gains in its public financial statements—about $10.5 million in investment gains included in “other reven...