Gifts That Make an Impact Now

You can use stocks, bonds, and mutual funds that have appreciated in value to support our shared vision. 

Gifts of securities are a tax-effective opportunity to transform an asset into immediate and significant support for SickKids. You can help us advance child health both now and in the future. By donating appreciated stocks, mutual funds, or stock options, you pay no tax on the capital gains and receive a tax receipt for the fair market value. 

You can transfer funds from your RRSPS and RRIFS directly to SickKids. This is an effective way to have an immediate impact and ensure our work of creating better continuity of care and better outcomes for children.

You can now initiate a grant recommendation from your donor-advised fund, or DAF, using the link below. Simply start typing in your fund provider name and the system will prompt you through the process.

Or for donors who like more control and involvement, a DAF through the SickKids Charitable Giving Fund is the answer. Backed by SickKids Foundation, the Fund offers a giving vehicle known as a Donor Advised Fund, a cost-effective alternative to a private foundation.

DAFs create a charitable legacy that can be personalized according to your wishes without the cost and administration of a private foundation. You can name the fund after a loved one or yourself and choose multiple charities as beneficiaries. By investing your charitable gift alongside SickKids Foundation endowments, you’ll receive excellent stewardship of your assets. Your fund’s rate of return will rank in the top 1 per cent of all charitable foundations in North America. You can also create a culture of giving that involves a couple, family, corporation, or group working together.

To establish a DAF with SickKids, make a minimum commitment of $100,000 payable over five years or through your estate, name the fund and successors to continue your legacy of giving, and decide each year what charities receive grants from your fund. Fifty per cent of your fund’s support will be allocated to SickKids, and 50 per cent may be given to qualified donation recipients you choose.

When you establish a DAF, you receive a tax receipt for your initial donation as well as those in the future. If you use appreciated securities to establish your fund, you are exempt from capital gains tax.

When you give a memorial or tribute gift for SickKids to honor someone special, you’re expressing your love, admiration, and gratitude in one of the most meaningful ways there is. Your gift will honour your loved one, create a lasting tribute, and help develop personalized medicine for each child.

We believe that where you live shouldn’t determine if you live. That’s why we’re erasing boundaries.

Your donation will reach a lot further than Canada. SickKids is in Toronto. But we’re a citizen of the world, and always have been. Today, we collaborate with health-care organizations in over 75 countries. If you’re a citizen of the world, your donation will make a difference in the world.

The research you fund at SickKids will pioneer new possibilities in treatment and cure not just here, but around the world. Your donation will fund the fight to keep SickKids facilities and equipment on the cutting edge – so we can deliver the best care possible to the thousands of patients who come from Canada, the United States, and across the globe. You’ll be funding the fight for childhood, supporting the innovative ways SickKids comforts kids through difficult times.