Research Advisory Council and Board | Shriners Children's (2024)

FAQs

What percentage of the Shriners' money goes to the kids? ›

At Shriners Children's™, stewardship is one of our core values. Approximately 85 percent of all funds spent by Shriners Children's each year is dedicated to patient care, research, and education.

He now plays wheelchair sports, appears on television and attends college.

Shriners International is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth. With nearly 200 local chapters and thousands of clubs on six continents, Shriners are known for their fellowship, brotherhood, compassion and generosity.

ALTHOUGH Danny Thomas, St. Jude's Founder, was a Shriner himself. Despite there being no affiliation between the two, the two hospital organizations do work together through unofficial channels to ensure the children in their care receive the best possible care.

Jude's Children's Hospital, founded by the late actor Danny Thomas and endorsed by numerous celebrities, has been slammed in a just-out report for its financial practices, and for using at least half of its fundraising on administrative and marketing tasks. It also accused the Memphis hospital of “hoarding” its funds.

Jude is $1.3 million per year. James R Downing is the current President and CEO of St. Jude.

Jay Pratte, an expert on animal behavior, wrote a report exposing that “environmental and physiological neglect, psychological abuse, and coerc[ion of] animals to behave through dominance and fear-based techniques” are standard procedures at the Shrine circuses that he visited.

On National Superhero Day 2023, the Baskin-Robbins Joy in Childhood Foundation surprised and celebrated Sebastian, a patient and local superhero at Shriners Children's Southern California, as its newest Pint-Sized Hero! Sebastian is a 14-year-old who was diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta when he was an infant.

Alec Cabacungan (He/Him) is a junior at Northwestern University studying Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. After he graduates with his bachelor's degree, Alec plans to pursue his dreams of being a sports broadcaster.

As the Masons note well on their official website, all Shriners are Masons, and Shriners hospitals are one of their big service projects. The Church has repeatedly pronounced that Catholics may not become Shriners or otherwise members of Masonic societies, under pain of excommunication.

Can a girl be a Shriner? ›

While it's true that women are not eligible to join the Shriners fraternity, there are several organizations for women that support the fraternity. In most cases, these organizations are open to the wives, widows, daughters, granddaughters, sisters and nieces of Shriners.

Shriners believe in God and that He created man to serve His purposes, among which is service to others in His name.

At Shriners Children's, stewardship is one of our core values. Approximately 80 percent of all funds spent by Shriners Children's each year is dedicated to patient care, research and education. We work hard to make sure your gifts are used in the most efficient and effective manner.

We're proud that 82 cents of every dollar received goes to support the treatment, research and future needs of St. Jude. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% in the U.S., and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.

Notable American Shriners include actors Mel Blanc, John Wayne, Ernest Borgnine, and Roy Rogers, Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur, and presidents Gerald Ford and Harry Truman.

The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation (Tunnel To Towers) receives an “A+” rating from CharityWatch, our highest score, for spending 93% of its cash expenses on its programs, keeping its overhead spending down to 7% of total cash expenses, and for being an efficient fundraiser—Tunnel to Towers spent only $5 to ...