The Children's Investment Fund supports program evaluation of its investments. Each grantee selects program outcomes from a framework of common outcomes created by the Children's Investment Fund. Grantees track client and program data on those outcomes and report annually on their progress. Grantee annual outcomes reports are also used to aggregate grantee data and monitor progress of the Children's Investment Fund.

In addition to grantee annual outcomes reports, grantees also submit quarterly narrative reports that address program implementation and include client success stories. Grantees report the demographics of children served by their programs on a biannual basis. All of these data are used by the Children's Investment Fund to monitor and evaluate program progress.

The Children's Investment Fund also relies on community partners for its program evaluation work. Over the past three years, the Children's Investment Fund has retained the services of Child Welfare Partnership at Portland State University.  For 18 months, the CWP monitored and studied child development and program services among 12 early childhood education and childcare grantees. The CWP is currently providing program evaluation technical assistance to grantees in early childhood and child abuse prevention/intervention.  For after-school and mentoring grantees, the Children's Investment Fund has formed partnerships with local school districts to compile and report data on the performance of students in those programs.