Here are five key statistics:
1. Fundraising efforts in FY 2009 yielded $7.644 billion, compared with $8.588 billion in FY 2008.
2. The drop followed a six-year increase in contributions.
3. The median value of funds, including pledges, compared with each dollar expended for all types of healthcare institutions, was $3.19 — a decline from years past, and well below the high of FY 2004 of $4.22.
4. Academic institutions produced the highest return.
5. The median cost to raise a dollar for all institutions dropped by $0.31 in FY 2009, from $0.34 in FY 2008.
Read the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy report on fundraising.
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