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- Great This charity's score is 100%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence. This overall score is calculated entirely from a single beacon score, weighted as follows: 100% Accountability & Finance.
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In the past decade, St. Jude has been recognized as a top charity by some of the world’s leading charity evaluators. We've also received a favorable rating by the American Institute of Philanthropy, as well as by the financial-rating agency Moody’s and Fitch (Fitch Ratings).
- Danny Thomas
Actress, producer and social activist Marlo Thomas, daughter...
- An origin story full of gratitude
Danny Thomas (left) with Donald Pinkel, the first medical...
- Danny Thomas
- A Fundraising Giant
- “Borrowing and Begging”
- “It’s Not Free”
- Wiped Out Savings
St. Jude began with a fledgling entertainer praying for a career break. When Danny Thomas, a comic and actor best known for the TV sitcom “Make Room for Daddy,” was struggling to earn a living in the late 1930s, the devout Roman Catholic went to church and asked for help from the patron saint of desperate cases, St. Jude Thaddeus. If he made it big...
Catherine Rainey thought she would be free of financial worry when her 2-year-old daughter Harlee was admitted to St. Jude last year. “The first thing my dad said was: ‘Catherine, you have nothing to worry about. They raise billions of dollars. Anytime you have a problem, you tell them and they will take care of it,’” she said. But like many famili...
In addition to charities like Hope’s, St. Jude families have repeatedly turned to fundraising sites and networks of their relatives, friends and neighbors to help cover basic expenses while unable to work during their children’s treatment. Parents’ requests on fundraising sites are sometimes desperate pleas. In January 2017, one father in North Car...
The costs associated with care at St. Jude caused at least one family to stop going to Memphis altogether. Last winter, Kelly Edwards was excitedly searching through Tulsa real estate listings after years of diligently saving $10,000 for a down payment on a house. She craved a permanent home for herself and the two young brothers she had taken in f...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105-3678. Other Names. ALSAC ALSAC / St. Jude American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc. Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. Tax Status. 501 (c)3. Stated Mission.
St. Jude charity rating and review. According to Charity Navigator — an organization that evaluates nonprofits based on transparency, financial health and accountability — ALSAC/ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has a four-out-of-four star rating for our Overall Score and Rating.
Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501 (c) (3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [1] In the 2021 fiscal year, St. Jude received $2 billion in donations. [2]
