Jackie Chamberlin

Jackie Chamberlin is the Finance Manager of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, a private grantmaking foundation in Irvine, California, established by Beckman Instruments founder Arnold O. Beckman and his wife Mabel to fund basic research in chemistry and the life sciences at U.S. universities and nonprofit research institutions. She joined the Foundation in December 2014 and oversees the accounting, audit, tax, and investment-tracking aspects of the Foundation's operations — i.e., stewarding and reporting on the endowment that funds the Foundation's research grants and awards (such as the Beckman Young Investigator and Beckman Scholars programs).

She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA), a credentialing combination that maps directly to her responsibilities over both financial reporting and investment/endowment oversight. She holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a Master of Business Taxation from the University of Southern California (USC).

Before the Beckman Foundation, Chamberlin worked in the audit and tax departments of Big Four accounting firms, and served as Controller for several corporations and foundations. This background — public accounting plus foundation controllership — is typical of nonprofit finance leaders responsible for compliance (including private-foundation Form 990-PF/990-T filings), audit coordination, and endowment stewardship.

• Not a startup investor. There is no evidence Chamberlin, or the Beckman Foundation, makes angel or seed-stage equity investments in companies. Founders seeking venture capital are not the audience here.
• The Beckman Foundation's mission is to fund basic scientific research in chemistry and the life sciences through grants and named awards to academic researchers and institutions in the United States.
• Chamberlin's "investment" scope is institutional/endowment management and tracking — monitoring the Foundation's invested assets that generate the returns used to fund its grant programs — plus accounting, audit, and tax.
• If "check size" is interpreted as grants, the Foundation awards research grants and fellowships to scientists (e.g., Beckman Young Investigator, Beckman Scholars), not company financing.