Aug 4, 2026 · 55 min · 14 segments
In this episode, Erin Stitzel hosts Frann Leppla, Executive Vice President of Philanthropy at Tampa General Hospital Foundation, and Taylor Baker, Vice President, to explore how exceptional leadership…
Taylor BakerGuest
Erin StitzelHostFran LepplaGuestYou know, the interesting thing about the TGH Foundation is that though it was founded in 1974, between 1974 and 2018, it really generated giving through event fundraising.
When John Kouros, our CEO, joined the organization, he really understood the power of philanthropy and what we could do if we had a truly impactful major gift organization.
And so that's when he hired me to basically bring me in to build it, which is what we've done.
I echo Taylor's thoughts all the time about how it's hard to believe everything we've accomplished in just this short period of time, you know, through the challenges that we've had.
Well, and tell us, you know, what are, you know, briefly from a similar, like, how much do you raise every year? I know you're in campaign.
In the five years, we've raised just over $200 million, which is our campaign goal.
So we just recently surpassed that because of extreme generosity from from actually our board chair and our vice chair.
They're the ones that wanted to help us make a joint gift and cross that finish line, which they have done.
We are still continuing on with that 200 million as the goal, right? So that in a year, we'll be able to just really celebrate, hopefully, you know, just knocking that out of the ballpark, which is the path that we're on.
You know, prior to the campaign, We were raising about $12 million per year, and now we're on a pretty good path of around that $30, $35 million every year.
Taylor and I have the goal of getting to at least $50 million per year on a consistent basis, and I would love to see us be able to do even more down the road.
You know, the interesting thing about the TGH Foundation is that though it was founded in 1974, between 1974 and 2018, it really generated giving through event fundraising.
When John Kouros, our CEO, joined the organization, he really understood the power of philanthropy and what we could do if we had a truly impactful major gift organization.
And so that's when he hired me to basically bring me in to build it, which is what we've done.
I echo Taylor's thoughts all the time about how it's hard to believe everything we've accomplished in just this short period of time, you know, through the challenges that we've had.
Well, and tell us, you know, what are, you know, briefly from a similar, like, how much do you raise every year? I know you're in campaign.
In the five years, we've raised just over $200 million, which is our campaign goal.
So we just recently surpassed that because of extreme generosity from from actually our board chair and our vice chair.
They're the ones that wanted to help us make a joint gift and cross that finish line, which they have done.
We are still continuing on with that 200 million as the goal, right? So that in a year, we'll be able to just really celebrate, hopefully, you know, just knocking that out of the ballpark, which is the path that we're on.
You know, prior to the campaign, We were raising about $12 million per year, and now we're on a pretty good path of around that $30, $35 million every year.
Taylor and I have the goal of getting to at least $50 million per year on a consistent basis, and I would love to see us be able to do even more down the road.
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