Our year
in review
2025
2025 marked the first year CIFF’s annual charitable commitments exceeded US$1 billion. We committed US$1.45 billion to solutions, partnerships, governments, organisations, and people working to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and create a world where children can flourish.
But behind that headline figure sit numbers that matter more. The number of girls who gained access to scholarships and stayed in school for longer. The number of children screened for acute malnutrition. The increase in usage of renewable technologies.
Our partners are translating our commitments into tangible impact. Together with governments and communities, they are helping turn global ambitions into measurable progress for children. Our year in review celebrates that progress, as we continue to scale our philanthropic giving.
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From our leadership
Reflections from CIFF’s leaders on the year’s progress, the power of partnership, and the path to lasting impact for children.
Time and again we’ve seen that if we want impact that truly lasts, we must go beyond quick fixes and instead focus on root cause interventions that can give children the futures they deserve.
As a philanthropy, our role is not to direct change, but to help accelerate progress towards shared goals like the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. We can help build capacity to deploy cost-effective models that enable locally owned and durable solutions, delivered through our exceptional partners.
2025 by the numbers
CIFF-supported programmes rely on close partnerships and locally-owned priorities to achieve the right scale for lasting impact. 2025 returned strong results for priority areas including child health, family planning, girls' education, and climate action.
5.4 million
women and girls reached by the mCPR Challenge Fund
In 2025, the modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) Fund reached approximately 2 million women and girls, enabling them to have autonomy and choice over their personal health. This brings the cumulative reach of the fund to 5.4 million since 2023.
1 billion MMS tablets
in expanded production capacity in high-burden regions
Regional manufacturing hubs in Asia and Africa have been supported to enhance the annual supply of Multiple Micronutrient Supplements tablets, creating a shorter and more resilient supply chain - in turn, strengthening the nutrition of pregnant women and newborns.
24 countries
across Africa eliminated at least one Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD)
This success has been led by governments in Africa and delivers major health, social, and economic benefits, freeing communities from blindness, disability, and the burden of care. CIFF has been one of the many partners helping accelerate progress across the continent.
300,000+
additional girls have accessed government scholarships
Between 2023 and 2025, more than 300,000 additional eligible girls have accessed government scholarships and remained in school, with access to these scholarships strengthened by CIFF partners across 4 states.
80,000
villages in Indonesia will be brought clean energy
In Indonesia, the government launched South East Asia’s largest rural electrification and renewable energy distribution initiative, the 100 GW Village Solar Programme, which will bring clean power to 80,000 villages and create new economic opportunities through locally managed solar systems.
In 2025
renewables generated more electricity than coal for the first time ever
Renewables surpassed coal in the global power mix, with solar and wind growing fast enough in the first half of 2025 to exceed global electricity demand growth. This marked the first time on record that renewables generated more electricity than coal.
Scale and growth
Scaling our charitable commitments
This level of commitment strengthens CIFF’s ability to support large-scale, system-level change aligned with global development priorities and country-led ambition.
A decade of growth to meet rising global need
As challenges facing children intensify, scaling financing is critical to supporting partners to deliver solutions at the pace and scale required.
Maintaining our multi-year programmes
A robust financial base for long term commitments
The strength of this organisation lies in our people and partnerships and in the robust and supportive governance that enables us to continue our work with purpose and integrity.
CIFF's approach to governance
During 2025, the Foundation’s Investment Committees and Board continued to make decisions to support the Foundation’s long term charitable strategy and objectives. In doing so, the Foundation has maintained a robust approach to governance which ensures compliance and financial security underpins all that we do.
Wherever we work, we abide by all relevant laws and regulations. The Investment Committees and Board use real-time information and expert advice to understand how the contexts in the countries where our programmes operate impact the Foundation’s finances, investments and programmes, including impacts on grantees’ operations and ultimate beneficiaries.
Managing our annual grant disbursements
Charitable disbursements
since 2020
Grant disbursements by programmatic area
in 2025
Partnership highlights in 2025
To achieve impact at scale, CIFF brings together governments, multilateral institutions, civil society, and the private sector to align resources around shared priorities. This enables coordinated action grounded in real-world delivery and sustained over time.
In 2025, CIFF supported new partnerships combining financing, expertise, and implementation capacity to address pressing challenges and accelerate progress on shared goals.
Climate and Health Funders Coalition
During COP30 in Brazil, CIFF joined over 35 leading philanthropies to launch the Climate and Health Funders Coalition, which collectively committed an initial US$300 million to address the climate emergency. Climate change is an increasing public health threat, placing an estimated 3.3 billion people at risk worldwide, particularly in middle- and lower-income countries. The coalition focuses on tackling extreme heat, air pollution, climate-sensitive infectious diseases, and improving climate and health data – enabling decision-makers to build more resilient health systems.
Partnership with the Government of Senegal
CIFF invested US$20 million in supporting Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene last year to deliver its 2050 National Transformation Agenda. The initiative recognises family planning, maternal health, and reproductive health as foundations for economic growth, wellbeing and social sustainability.
This partnership tells a story of CIFF’s evolving approach to working with governments: building holistic and resilient, nationally owned systems through sustainability, delivery expertise and a focus on performance and leadership. Direct funding is a key part of this model but is also a part of a wider ecosystem. This work relies on strengthening partnerships with civil society, NGOs and academic organisations whose expertise, accountability and community reach are essential to create lasting transformative improvements for individuals and communities across the country.
Nutrition for Growth Commitments
In March 2025, Nutrition for Growth took place in Paris, where countries, donors, civil society and the private sector all came together to announce bold commitments intended to support urgent action on malnutrition globally.
Alongside other sizeable philanthropic announcements, CIFF pledged to spend US$400 million by the end of 2028 to scale-up high impact, evidence-based nutrition initiatives. Although philanthropy alone cannot end global malnutrition, it has an important role in providing catalytic funding and supporting governments to meet their domestic needs in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Trachoma Free Africa Fund
In 2025, CIFF worked with partners to establish the Trachoma Free Africa Fund (TFA), an ambitious initiative aiming to raise US$300 million by the end of 2027 to eliminate trachoma across the continent. Approximately 93 million people across Africa live in areas that are endemic for trachoma and require intervention.
In close collaboration with governments, TFA will support interventions in 21 countries, to accelerate progress towards disease elimination. The fund will offer flexible financing to scale proven solutions and introduce new innovations, with the goal of eradicating trachoma from affected communities.
Skill Outcomes Fund: advancing results-based financing in skilling
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the National Skill Development Corporation, has launched the Skill Outcomes Fund (SOF) to strengthen outcome-based financing in India’s skilling ecosystem.
SOF builds on the globally recognised Skill Impact Bond (SIB) that has been highlighted in India’s Economic Survey for two consecutive years (2024–25 and 2025–26) for its focus on job retention. SOF aims to institutionalise key SIB learnings, expand access to quality employment, particularly for young women, and align public and private capital around measurable, inclusive workforce outcomes.
Our people sit at the heart of CIFF, and throughout 2025, our success has been driven by the outstanding commitment, achievements and resilience of our staff. With over 230 people globally, I am incredibly proud of how colleagues from across all teams have worked together with compassion, dedication, and strength to support in creating a world where all children can flourish.”
Explore our work
CIFF supports a broad range of programmes across interconnected themes, helping to build the ecosystems and conditions that best enable children to grow up safe, healthy, and able to thrive.
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