THE CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (UK)

Registered charity 1091043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CIFF UK, THE C-H FOUNDATION

THE CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION IS AN INDEPENDENT PHILANTHROPIC ORGANISATION, WORKING WITH PARTNERS TO TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF POOR AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. USING DATA AND EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT AT SCALE, CIFF'S FOCUS AREAS INCLUDE CHILDREN AND MOTHERS' HEALTH AND NUTRITION, CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AND WELFARE, AND SMART WAYS TO SLOWDOWN CLIMATE CHANGE.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Group's unrestricted operational reserves were US$nil as of 31 December 2024, with the Trustees noting that working capital surpluses are transferred to the expendable endowment. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis, with the Trustees satisfied that the Group has sufficient resources to continue in business for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kate Hampton — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sir Christopher Hohn — Chair (source)
• Anna Hakobyan — Chief Impact Officer (source)
• Brad Duncan — Chief Administrative Officer (source)
• Sonia Medina — Chief Ecosystem Development Officer (source)
• Heather Morgan — Chief Human Resources Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,541 likes)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~20.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ana Wiechers Marshall
• BENJAMIN JAMES GOLDSMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Marko Lehtimaki · trustee of 1 other charity
• Masroor Taale Siddiqui
• Sir CHRISTOPHER HOHN

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Bangladesh · Brazil · Canada · China · City Of London · Czech Republic · Denmark · Ethiopia · France · Germany

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dr Marko Lehtimaki — trustee here and at THE CH FOUNDATION (UK)

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

• INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION income £762k
• INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TRUST income £117k
• THE CIBC WORLD MARKETS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £223k
• CHRISTINA NOBLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £448k
• THE MORDAUNT FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION income £654k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.