Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation

Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation

The Foundation was established in 1978 to marshal philanthropic support for Children's Hospital Colorado, which operates the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora and satellite facilities in Broomfield and Highlands Ranch. Over 60 fundraising professionals staff the organization, while investment oversight for the pooled endowment and hospital reserves sits with the parent health system's investment committee, chaired by Fred Taylor. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus remains the principal clinical and research ally, co-founding the Colorado Child Health Research Institute with the Hospital. Investment assets back the hospital system's clinical and research mission, which spans pediatric specialties, translational research, and community health programs. The portfolio's composition is not publicly detailed, though the Foundation's structure as a supporting organization of a large academic-medical ecosystem points to allocations across traditional endowment sleeves — public equities, fixed income, absolute return, private equity, and real assets. The Foundation does not disclose specific fund commitments or direct investment positions. The Foundation reports a board of trustees that includes lifetime honorary members Charles and Carrie Ergen, with Betsy Searle serving as chair and John Freyer, Jr. as vice chair. Philanthropic vehicles include the Mighty Millions Raffle, which awarded a Winter Park, Colorado grand-prize home. Physical footprint includes the flagship Anschutz Medical Campus, two additional hospital campuses, and a therapy center. A genuine structural differentiator is the embedded relationship with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Rather than operating as a standalone grantmaker, the Foundation functions as the philanthropic conduit for a pediatric hospital that shares faculty, labs, and clinical protocols with a major public research university. This joint-appointment model concentrates funding on a single metro-area ecosystem, distinguishing it from multi-site foundation networks with dispersed grant-making.