Connecticut · Nonprofit
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,452 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($238,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $617k
- Net assets
- $52M
What The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research does
Programs
Grantmaking
$4,461,463 spentConvening conferences
$294,158 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $56M to $74M (+31%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John D Childs
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
51% of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $305k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research?
- The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,452 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($238,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $617,452 in grants to The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research?
- GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing