St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation

St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation

Founded in 1993, the St. Louis Children's Hospital Foundation operates as the philanthropic engine for its namesake hospital, which U.S. News & World Report ranks as Missouri's #1 pediatric hospital. The foundation sits under the BJC HealthCare system and partners closely with WashU Medicine for pediatric research and clinical care. Its funding model relies on major donor relationships, including sustained support from the Taylor Family through the Crawford Taylor Foundation. Allocation spans hedge funds, real assets, private credit, and a dedicated Cryptocurrency Donation Portfolio, alongside direct commercial property holdings such as the foundation's office suite and an Illinois land parcel. Deployment extends into operating assets that directly advance care delivery, including the Healthy Kids Express mobile vans and Angel Eye Cameras in the NICU. The foundation also participates in a joint venture as a co-investor with KVC Health Systems to build a Children's Mental Wellness Campus in Webster Groves, MO. The foundation's reach is amplified by networked fundraising; the Corporate Partners Society recognizes annual donors of $10,000 or more, while Children's Legacy Partners unites estate-planning and investment advisors around the mission. Geographically, the hospital serves families across 50 states and more than 80 countries, extending specialty pediatric care into southwest Missouri through a collaboration with CoxHealth and WashU Medicine. Structurally, the foundation blends traditional endowment management with direct ownership of care-delivery assets, a posture that ties investment returns directly to patient-facing infrastructure rather than exclusively to grantmaking. This hybrid model — pairing liquid market exposure with tangible real estate and mobile care units — sets it apart from hospital foundations that allocate purely to financial instruments.