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The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research: 58 grants to organizations, $4.1 million (tax year ended June 2025)
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, a private foundation in New Haven, CT, paid 58 grants to organizations totaling $4,071,767 in its tax year ended June 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on February 20, 2026. The largest was $114,000 to Harvard University Medical School in Boston, MA for in vivo tracking of g protein-coupled receptors sensing for gut metabolites.
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- EIN
- 066034840
- Based in
- New Haven, CT
- Assets
- $59,956,396
- Grants paid
- $4,071,767
- Tax year ended
- June 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended June 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed February 20, 2026, IRS object ID 202630519349100208. It reported $4,071,767 in grants paid; 58 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | In Vivo tracking of G protein-coupled receptors sensing for gut metabolites | $114,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Examining the neural mechanisms for generalization | $113,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Mechanisms of Immune Memory Generation in a Native RNA Targeting CRISPR System | Employment | $113,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Evaluating neuromodulatory networks across brain states | Employment | $112,667 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | An unprecedented atomistic picture of contranslational protein folding | $112,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Synthetic protein circuits a conditional triggers of anti-tumor immunity | Education | $107,417 | apps.irs.gov |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | Main-Group Chemoproteomic Platforms for Deciphering and Drugging Methionine | Education | $106,667 | apps.irs.gov |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | Neuronal and immunological dissection of antidepresant responsiveness | $106,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Ovulation of the fittest | Education | $106,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Evolution of human-specific neuronal activity-dependent gene regulation | Education | $106,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | A DNA-encoded library strategy for molecular glue discovery | $78,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Uncovering the functional architecture of the human speech cortex | Education | $78,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | Learning the modular grammar of phase separation in signaling networks | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Kansas City, MO | Determine how ribosome heterogeneity regulates early embyrogenesis | Medical research | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | Unraveling lipid transport across the mycobacterial cell envelope | Education | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Exploring mechanisms for flexible learning in higher-order neural circuits | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Structural basis of Doa10-mediated protein quality control at the ER | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetic | Mnchen, GM | Direct Visualization of DNA Methyltransferase Oligomerization and Its Influence on Neuronal Gene Regulation | $74,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | Manipulating vascular endocytosis to direct blood and immune cell migration | Health care | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Alternative Splicing Regulation via Intronic Transposable Elements | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | Dissecting the Dynamics of Tissue Patterning During Regeneration | Education | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | Determining how basement membranes stretch and recover to support tissues | Education | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | How to build (and rebuild) an animal | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Molecular basis of sensory integration in octopus | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | Using single cell transcriptomics to understand homeostatic sleep pressure | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | In situ cryoET analysis of cristae biogenesis and morphology | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Central control of the autonomic nervous system in chronic pain and anxiety | Education | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Niaid | Bethesda, MD | Sexual recombination and virulence in the success of African trypanosomes | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Minnesota | Mineapolis, MN | Effects of regulatory network divergence on drug resistance in Candida | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | Classification of exotic ATPase functions using large language models | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Defining the role of protein homeostasis in spermatogenesis | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Gladstone Institutes | San Francisco, CA | The molecular biology of Obelisk RNAs | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Secretory cell innovation in a symbiotic interaction | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Learning structure in genotype to phenotype maps | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | LIGHTing up tumor-associated tertiary lymphoid structures through cytokine pharmacokinetic engineering | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Understanding tissue damage in the pre-neoplasia to neoplasia shift of colorectal cancer | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | Mechanisms and consequences of APOBEC3 targeting of extrachromosomal DNA | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland, OR | Mechanisms of Type I PARP1 Inhibitors in Regulating Cell Fate Decisions in Cancer | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | Hormone-mediated changes in neural computations that drive flexible social behaviors | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Decoding Aging Neurogenic Niches: Unraveling Somatic Mutations, Clonal Dynamics, and Functional Decline | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | Illuminating cryptic functional pockets in the human proteome with electrophilic stereoprobes | Medical research | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Structure-based vaccine design targeting mpox antigen A27 | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | Ron Tyrosine Kinase deficiency uncovers a critical regulator of anti-tumor T Cell responses | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Novel Chemical Tools for Targeted Eradication of DNA Repair Proteins and Application to Chemosensitization | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Interplay of spatial structure and collective drug resistance across scale | $57,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | Timing biomolecular interactions in massively high throughput via a polymerase stopwatch | Medical research | $49,333 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | Understanding how the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts: Linking subcellular processes to emergent supracellular patterns | Education | $44,633 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | Towards a novel tauopathy therapeutic: harnessing biomolecular condensates for targeted protein degradation | Medical research | $41,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | Timing molecular interactions in high throughput via a polymerase stopwatch | Education | $39,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Neural mechanisms of taste and visceral signal integration in the brainstem | $37,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | Dissecting the impact of non-coding somatic mutations in the human brain | $37,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Reconstruct cell trajectories and communications in brain development | $37,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Defining regulatory principles of translation during nutrient shifts | $30,883 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Institue of Healthnichd | Bethesda, MD | Linking Parts to Process: Probing the Cell-Biological Basis for Tissue Patterning in Developing Mesenchyme | $29,167 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Discovery and Synthesis of novel anticancer drugs via enzyme engineering | $12,334 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | Mechanisms and consequences of LINE-1-mediated genome instability | Medical research | $12,333 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | The evolution of complex chemosensation | $12,333 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Main-group platforms for deciphering and drugging metionine | $4,200 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended June 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed April 7, 2025, IRS object ID 202540979349100039. It reported $4,009,655 in grants paid; 62 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Cancer Institute | Bethesda, MD | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Nadezda Fursova, D. Phil. At National Cancer Institute | $79,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disea | Bethesda, MD | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Mabel Tettey, Ph.D. | $78,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Abraham (Avi) Flamholz | Education | $77,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New York Genome Center | New York, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for John Blair, Ph.D. | Health care | $77,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Claire Magnani, Ph.D. | $76,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sarah Innes-Gold, Ph.D | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Chi-Yun Lin, Ph.D. | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for XinXin Ge, Ph.D. | Education | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Yitzhak (Itzak) Norman, Ph.D. | Education | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Hannah Ledvina, Ph.D. | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Mineapolis, MN | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Danielle Brotto, Ph.D. | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Julia Rogers, Ph.D. | $75,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Chin San (Eric) Loo, P | $75,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Juan Barajas, Ph.D. | $75,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Kansas City, MO | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Liewei Yan, Ph.D. | Medical research | $75,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Kate Cavanaugh, Ph.D. | Education | $75,250 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Xiaochen Sun, Ph.D. | $74,890 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Kevin Wu, Ph.D. | $74,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Hannah Wayment-Steele, | Education | $74,634 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D. | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Shally Margolis, Ph.D. | Employment | $74,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship forGwendolyn Beacham, Ph.D | Health care | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Xinyu Ling, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Rocky Diegmiller, Ph.D | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Adam Wei Jian Soh, Ph. | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Allison Kann, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Pablo Villar, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Chantal Guegler, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Leah Elias, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Michelle Fry, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Nitsan Goldstein, Ph.D | Education | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sheng Feng, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Mark Plitt, Ph.D. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Minnesota | Mineapolis, MN | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Petra Vande Zande, Ph. | $73,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Carlos Mendez-Dorantes | Medical research | $73,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Vikram Chandra, Ph.D. | $73,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Gen Li, Ph.D. | $73,133 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jingyi Chen, Ph.D. | Employment | $73,133 | apps.irs.gov |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Shiyu Xia, Ph.D. | Education | $70,133 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Changwoo Seo, Ph.D. | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Caroline Doherty, Ph.D | Education | $69,133 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Amir Bitran, Ph.D. | $67,800 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jenelle Wallace, Ph.D. | Education | $67,333 | apps.irs.gov |
| New York University | New York, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for James Chen, Ph.D. | Education | $66,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Phi Nguyen, Ph.D. | $64,468 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jeffrey Swan, Ph.D. | $63,933 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Monifa Fahie, Ph.D. | Education | $61,667 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Marlis Denk-Lobnig, Ph | $56,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Margaret Torrence, Ph. | Education | $45,424 | apps.irs.gov |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Xinyu Ling, Ph.D. | $41,708 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Martin Douglass, Ph.D. | Health care | $38,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for James Chen, Ph.D. | Education | $36,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for John Lin-King, Ph.D. | $32,092 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Broad Institute of Mit and Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Alexandra Grote, Ph.D. | $31,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard University Medical School | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Caleb Weinreb, Ph.D. | $31,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Joshua Brickner, Ph.D. | $31,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Katherine Xue, Ph.D. | $31,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Benjamin Larson, Ph.D. | Education | $25,833 | apps.irs.gov |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jose Orozco, M.D., Ph. | Medical research | $13,758 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Aakanksha Jain, Ph.D. | $10,333 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | Cambridge, MA | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Gavin Schlissel, Ph.D. | Medical research | $10,333 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cornell University | Ithica, NY | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jeffrey Swan, Ph.D. | $9,867 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $2,222,724 |
| Medical research | $426,657 |
| Employment | $372,800 |
| Health care | $263,600 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $2,346,715 |
| California | $2,318,281 |
| New York | $705,568 |
| Maryland | $439,650 |
| Washington | $372,800 |
| North Carolina | $295,600 |
| Minnesota | $223,800 |
| New Jersey | $180,467 |
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Updated February 20, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.