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The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
58
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$74,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$114,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 81
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$60M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $884k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$2.9M31%
FY202429$2.8M45%
FY202326$2.1M100%
FY20221$3.0M100%
FY202161$2.9M34%
FY202058$2.9M71%
FY201970$3.1M24%
FY201881$3.7M64%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$13MHealth$10MEducation$4.6MSocial Science$82kReligion$82kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California San Francisco$982,3133n/a
California Institute of Technology$549,85030%
University of Washington$479,4673n/a
The Broad Institute Inc$455,10030%
Duke University$295,60020%
The Scripps Research Institute$228,93320%
The Rockefeller University$214,63330%
New York Genome Center Inc$202,75020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$197,73320%
The Trustees of Princeton University$189,96720%
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All grantees of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California San Francisco$982,3133n/a
California Institute of Technology$549,85030%
University of Washington$479,4673n/a
The Broad Institute Inc$455,10030%
Duke University$295,60020%
The Scripps Research Institute$228,93320%
The Rockefeller University$214,63330%
New York Genome Center Inc$202,75020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$197,73320%
The Trustees of Princeton University$189,96720%
Johns Hopkins University$178,68320%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$160,09130%
University of Michigan$157,500313%
Children's Hospital Corporation$152,16630%
Stowers Institute for Medical Research$151,80020%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$147,80020%
University of Utah$147,8001n/a
Pennsylvania State University$137,0002n/a
Yale University$115,5082n/a
New York University$96,00020%
Yaodun International Charitable Foundation$82,2502n/a
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research$73,58320%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$38,80010%
Yale University$16,2501n/a
Yale University$10,5001n/a
Cornell University$9,86710%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 238 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Institute of Technology: $549,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $455,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $295,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scripps Research Institute: $228,933 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $214,633 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Genome Center Inc: $202,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $197,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $189,967 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $178,683 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $160,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $157,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $152,166 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStowers Institute for Medical Research: $151,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $147,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $96,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: $73,583 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $38,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $9,867 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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About The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

How much does The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research give?
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research reported 58 grants totaling $4,071,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (41%), Health (34%), Education (15%).
Who are The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco ($982k), California Institute of Technology ($550k), University of Washington ($479k).
Does The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research based?
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 269 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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