The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for
New Haven, CT · EIN 06-6034840. Reported 184 grants totalling $14.3M to 53 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $66,833. Half of everything it gave fell between $49,680 and $74,000; the smallest was $4,200 and the largest $3,025,915. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place Holder | New Haven, CT | $3,025,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $987,353 | 17 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $982,313 | 15 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $842,734 | 14 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $737,582 | 12 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | $549,933 | 8 | 3 | 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $549,850 | 8 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $479,467 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | $455,100 | 7 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $414,935 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $370,824 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $299,634 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $295,600 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | $228,933 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $214,633 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Genome Center | New York, NY | $202,750 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | $197,733 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $189,967 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $160,091 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $157,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | $152,166 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Kansas City, MO | $151,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $147,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | $147,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $147,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota | Mineapolis, MN | $147,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $147,800 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $142,258 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $137,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | $137,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $137,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $96,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Emily Bayer Phd University of Basel Switzerland | Basel | $80,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Cancer Institute | Bethesda, MD | $79,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disea | Bethesda, MD | $78,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Ghanim Phd | Cambridge | $78,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetic | Mnchen | $74,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Niaid | Bethesda, MD | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gladstone Institutes | San Francisco, CA | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland, OR | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Ghanim Phd Mrc Center University Medical School England | Cambridge | $73,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | Cambridge, MA | $73,583 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nadezda Fursova D Phil National Cancer Institute | Bethesda, MD | $59,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Institute for Science | Washington, DC | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emily Bayer Phd | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $38,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $30,883 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Institue of Healthnichd | Bethesda, MD | $29,167 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithica, NY | $9,867 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado | Aurora, CO | $5,167 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
31 of 53 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Harvard University Medical School
In Vivo tracking of G protein-coupled receptors sensing for gut metabolites - Stanford University
Examining the neural mechanisms for generalization - University of Washington
Mechanisms of Immune Memory Generation in a Native RNA Targeting CRISPR System - University of California Berkeley
An unprecedented atomistic picture of contranslational protein folding - California Institute of Technology
Synthetic protein circuits a conditional triggers of anti-tumor immunity - Princeton University
Main-Group Chemoproteomic Platforms for Deciphering and Drugging Methionine
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 81 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $3,025,915 | $3,025,915 |
| 2022 | 61 | $3,170,251 | $60,000 |
| 2023 | 64 | $4,009,655 | $73,800 |
| 2024 | 58 | $4,071,767 | $74,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for has 18 of them, worth $4,031,400. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $226,800 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | $223,800 |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | $223,800 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $223,800 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $223,800 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $223,800 |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | $223,800 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $223,800 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $223,800 |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | $223,800 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $223,800 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $223,800 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | Bethesda, MD | $223,800 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | $223,800 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $223,800 |
Where its money goes
25% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $66,833. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 333 Cedar Street Shm L300, New Haven, CT, 06510. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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