The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for
New Haven, CT · EIN 06-6034840. Reported 126 grants totalling $10.2M to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. 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 $62,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $48,667 and $73,800; the smallest was $5,167 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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place Holder | New Haven, CT | $3,025,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $692,313 | 12 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $604,920 | 10 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $564,200 | 9 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $550,782 | 10 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | $435,933 | 7 | 2 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $368,633 | 6 | 2 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | $303,100 | 5 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $260,634 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $253,800 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $232,935 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York Genome Center | New York, NY | $202,750 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | $197,733 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $149,224 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $147,758 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $147,600 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | $115,166 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $96,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $94,000 | 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 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Kansas City, MO | $75,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota | Mineapolis, MN | $73,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $68,458 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | $64,000 | 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 |
| Cornell University | Ithica, NY | $9,867 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Colorado | Aurora, CO | $5,167 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
23 of 44 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 74%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
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.
- Emily Bayer Phd University of Basel Switzerland
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FOR EMILY BAYER, PH.D. - National Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Nadezda Fursova, D. Phil. At National Cancer Institute - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disea
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Mabel Tettey, Ph.D. - George Ghanim Phd
Postdoctoral Fellowship for George Ghanim, Ph.D. at MRC Center, University Medical School, England - California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Abraham (Avi) Flamholz - New York Genome Center
Postdoctoral Fellowship for John Blair, Ph.D.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 55 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
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 |
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 -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| 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
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 31% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $62,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
- 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
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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