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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 8,265 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

8,265
Charities
£17,799,675,132
Total Income
£1,065,402
Avg Income
85.8%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

The Ormiston Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Ormiston Trust supports children and their families by way of grants to Ormiston organisations and the sponsorship of Multi Academy Trusts. Four core values underpin our work: Nurture; Empower; Innovate; and Impact.

Latest Income: £338,987,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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National Philanthropic Trust UK Limited

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support

The Charity raises funds from a range of donors and makes grants to such exclusively charitable projects as the trustees may determine, both in the UK and abroad.

Latest Income: £225,406,809
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Ubs UK Donor-Advised Foundation

Charitable activities

MAKING GRANTS TO UK CHARITIES

Latest Income: £181,245,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Garfield Weston Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, charitable grant-making foundation. Privately funded, it supports a wide range of charities across the UK. From small community groups to large national institutions, the Foundation aims to support organisations with effective solutions to helping those most in need. We accept applications all year round. See more at garfieldweston.org

Latest Income: £165,443,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Ako Foundation

Charitable activities, Environment

The Foundation's main activity is to make grants to UK charities and for charitable purposes elsewhere in the world. The priority areas for its grants are initiatives and projects which improve education, promote the arts and combat the climate emergency. The Foundation does not seek applications for grants and will not make grants in response to unsolicited applications received.

Latest Income: £119,980,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Master Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Grant making trust.

Latest Income: £107,879,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Trinity College Cambridge

Arts, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

Provision, along with the University, of education of the highest standard for some 1100 undergraduate and graduate students; maintaining a Chapel, extensive Library, and substantial buildings; promoting research by its Fellows and students; and making grants to others with similar objects. Although situated in Cambridge, Trinity's members come from a very wide range of areas and backgrounds.

Latest Income: £105,509,000
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The Leverhulme Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The Trust provides scholarships and other similar support for education and research. by making grants across a broad range of schemes, by identifying individuals who can demonstrate high-quality scholarship, originality, and excellence, in their chosen research proposal.

Latest Income: £103,690,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Greencliffe Foundation LTD

Charitable activities

The Foundation is a grant making foundation with the objective of promoting such purposes as are exclusively charitable in accordance with the laws of England & Wales as the trustees may from time to time determine. The Foundation primary focus is in India.

Latest Income: £101,754,381
Areas of Operation: Bangladesh
Status: Registered
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The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Charitable activities

MAKE CHARITABLE GRANTS

Latest Income: £95,527,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Npt Transatlantic Limited

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support

The Trust's objective is to raise funds from a broad range of donors and make grants to Registered Charities concerned with the advancement of such exclusively charitable objects as the Trustees shall from time to time determine.

Latest Income: £84,278,008
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Marlborough College

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Marlborough College is incorporated by Royal Charter and registered as an education charity. The College provides education for boys and girls for the ages 13-18. The number of pupils in the College averaged 924 of whom 888 were boarders and 36 were day pupils. Under its grant making policy the total number of pupils receiving fee assistance in the academic year 2014/15 was 119.

Latest Income: £73,314,000
Areas of Operation: Malaysia
Status: Registered
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Reuben Foundation

Charitable activities

Grant making for the benefit of institutions and individuals

Latest Income: £64,288,523
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Church Of England Pensions Board

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing, Professions, Religion

Provides the best possible support and care, within available resources, to those who have retired from stipendiary and lay ministry within the Church of England, and to their dependants, through the provision of retirement and supported housing, and through discretionary grants to ensure beneficiaries have a minimum income standard.

Latest Income: £63,673,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The London Marathon Charitable Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

London Marathon Foundation, the operating name of The London Marathon Charitable Trust, aims to inspire physical activity. It does so by awarding grants to help make available facilities and opportunities and by direct delivery to help the least active children, young people and adults from underserved communities get active.

Latest Income: £62,715,273
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru

Charitable activities

The Arts Council of Wales is responsible for developing and funding the arts in Wales for the benefit of people throughout Wales. We formulate arts strategies, undertake research, and provide recurrent and one-off grants to organisations and individuals. We also manage a range of non-grant activities and services, often in partnership with local authorities and others.

Latest Income: £57,739,000
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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The Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation

Charitable activities, Religion

The charity funds projects run by registered charities in England, Wales, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland. The charity aims to change the lives of people most in need through its grants, as well as supporting the Roman Catholic Church and its associated registered charities. The Foundation makes grants from its three funds, The British Church Fund, The General Fund and The Irish Church Fund.

Latest Income: £55,420,279
Areas of Operation: Ireland
Status: Registered
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Motability

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Helps disabled people to make journeys by providing access to transport, and working to make transport more accessible. Oversees Motability Operations to deliver the Motability Scheme and provides grants to Scheme customers. Provides transport-related grants to charities and organisations. Carries out research and innovation to make transport more accessible now and in the longer-term.

Latest Income: £54,191,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Education Endowment Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

The advancement of education for the benefit of the public by a) making grants to schools other not for profit organisations to fund projects which seek to address low educational attainment; and b) supporting and disseminating the results of research in to ways to mitigate the factors that cause or contribute to, and successful strategies for dealing with, low educational attainment.

Latest Income: £52,381,253
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The foundation supports work in the UK and India. Its focus is on helping people to overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity so that they can realise their potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives. It has a particular interest in supporting young people and a strong belief in the importance of the arts. It operates through grant making and related charitable activities.

Latest Income: £50,690,127
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Breakthrough Foundation

Charitable activities, Research

The provision of grants to the US charities, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Breakthrough Prize in Life Science Foundation, having primarily scientific and educational objects, in the USA, UK and Israel.

Latest Income: £50,048,344
Areas of Operation: Israel
Status: Registered
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King Edward Vii's Hospital (sister Agnes)

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

King Edward VII (Sister Agnes) Charity is a Royal Charter Charity established in 1899 to support Armed Forces service personnel, veterans and their families who require medical treatment through the provision of grants for specific healthcare needs.

Latest Income: £44,543,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Human Capability Foundation

Charitable activities

HCF is a grant-making charity that makes grants to organisations predominantly in India.

Latest Income: £44,453,782
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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Family Action

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

To preserve and protect the good health (in particular the mental health) of children and families, other individuals and groups within the community and to provide services, advice and grants to children, adults and families.

Latest Income: £44,282,000
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Man
Status: Registered
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Army Benevolent Fund

Armed forces, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Charity's Objectives are to benefit persons who are serving or who have served in the British Army, or their dependants, in any charitable way by the provision of grants, loans, gifts, pensions or otherwise.

Latest Income: £38,740,182
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many Grant making charitable activities charities are there in the UK?

There are 8,265 registered Grant making charitable activities charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the Grant making charitable activities charities by income?

Lloyd's Register Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£691.7m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of Grant making charitable activities charities?

Grant making charitable activities charities reported a combined annual income of £17.8bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for Grant making charitable activities charities?

Across all Grant making charitable activities charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 85.8%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of Grant making charitable activities charities?

Grant making charitable activities charities have an average annual income of £1.1m. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.