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St. Baldrick's Foundation

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Conquer childhood cancers

St. Baldrick's Foundation began in 2000 as a challenge between friends and has since grown into the world's largest volunteer-powered, donor centered fundraising program for childhood cancer research. The Foundation now funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Its signature head-shaving events are coordinated worldwide, where volunteers get bald to stand in solidarity with kids with cancer and raise money to support lifesaving research. Since its start, nearly 450,000 shavees, including over 59,000 women, have shaved their heads at more than 10,000 head-shaving events in 25 countries and 50 U.S. states. St. Baldrick's has committed more than $200 million since 2005 to fund local institutions as well as cooperative research on a national scale to help doctors work together to develop the best treatments for all children with cancer.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

77.72Overall score
out of 100

68.50Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$37,926,117

Total expenses · USD$41,680,500

Program expenses

$30,218,362.50 recorded amount

72.5%

Fundraising expenses

$9,961,639.50 recorded amount

23.9%

Administrative expenses

$1,458,817.50 recorded amount

3.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.24 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Kathleen Ruddy
Recorded compensation: $249,097.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.59%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for St. Baldrick's Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	St. Baldrick's Foundation began in 2000 as a challenge between friends and has since grown into the world's largest volunteer-powered, donor centered fundraising program for childhood cancer research. The Foundation now funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Its signature head-shaving events are coordinated worldwide, where volunteers get bald to stand in solidarity with kids with cancer and raise money to support lifesaving research. Since its start, nearly 450,000 shavees, including over 59,000 women, have shaved their heads at more than 10,000 head-shaving events in 25 countries and 50 U.S. states. St. Baldrick's has committed more than $200 million since 2005 to fund local institutions as well as cooperative research on a national scale to help doctors work together to develop the best treatments for all children with cancer.
`ein` EIN	20-1173824
`tot_exp` Total expenses	41680500.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.035
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.24
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.239
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.725
`fscore` Financial score	68.5
`leader` Recorded leader	Kathleen Ruddy
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	249097.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0059
`motto` Tagline	Conquer childhood cancers
`name` Charity name	St. Baldrick's Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	37926117.0
`score` Overall score	77.72
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Medical Research
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	30218362.5
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	9961639.5
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1458817.5000000002

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 20-1173824
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Medical Research
Recorded location: California (CA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.