· Private foundation
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k45 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Harvard University Medical School | $114,000 |
| University of Washington | $113,000 |
| Stanford University | $113,000 |
| University of Washington | $112,667 |
| University of California Berkeley | $112,000 |
| California Institute of Technology | $107,417 |
| Princeton University | $106,667 |
| University of California San Francisco | $106,000 |
| Columbia University | $106,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | $106,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | $78,000 |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | $78,000 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | $76,000 |
| The Rockefeller University | $76,000 |
| Columbia University | $76,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
130 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $296k · revenue +6%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $198k · revenue +29%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $179k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- PHPLACE HOLDERone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
- EBEMILY BAYER PHD UNIVERSITY OF BASEL SWITZERLANDone grant, 2023 · $81k
- NCNational Cancer Instituteone grant, 2024 · $79k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 269 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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