Save the Children Federation

Save the Children Federation

Founded in 1932 by Dr. John Voris and Dr. Frank Kingdon, Save the Children Federation operates from Fairfield, Connecticut as the U.S. arm of the global Save the Children movement. Its permanent capital base exists to insulate programming from short-term donor volatility, making the endowment's investment posture highly consequential. The organization delivers food, medical care, education, and emergency-response services across both domestic and international programs. The investment portfolio runs a concentrated playbook organized around buyout strategies. The endowment has built cryptocurrency exposure through a dedicated Bitcoin fund and an active digital-asset donation program, a signal of its willingness to add uncorrelated risk assets inside a traditionally conservative structure. Governance sits with a board stacked for asset-management fluency: Finance Committee Chair Margaret McGetrick came from Liberty Square Asset Management and Julian Salisbury serves as Co-CIO at Sixth Street alongside his trustee duties. Janti Soeripto leads the organization as President and CEO. The board further draws on Angela Ahrendts's Apple and Burberry experience as Chair of Save the Children International, connecting the federation's capital deployment to the global movement's governance. In May 2026, the internal research record confirms the endowment maintains its buyout-anchored strategy with cryptocurrency capability intact. Save the Children Federation's structural edge lies in its governance architecture. It embeds investment-committee authority inside a humanitarian mission, staffing that committee with private-market investors rather than career non-profit fiduciaries. This makes the endowment an unusual, patient allocator with no fundraising pressure — a permanent-capital vehicle whose sole mandate is protecting programmatic spending power over decades.