THE CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (UK)

Registered charity 1091043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7722475 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE ("THE OBJECTS").

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group's total incoming resources increased significantly to US$894 million in 2025, driven largely by donations from TCI Fund Management Limited. The Group reported a net gain on investments of US$1,687 million, resulting in a total net movement in funds of US$968 million. The Trustees confirm that the Group has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and can meet all current and anticipated future commitments.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.4 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 (90% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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 THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £563k
• CHRISTINA NOBLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £703k
• THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN UK TRUST income £2.6m
• CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP income £6.3m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• CHILD GROWTH FOUNDATION income £89k

Side by side with its peers

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