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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,202 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,202
Charities
£8,949,407,421
Total Income
£1,444,618
Avg Income
96.7%
Program Ratio

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

The Architects Registration Board Staff Benevolent Fund

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Making charitable grants to existing or former employees of the Architects Registration Board,formally Architects Registration Council of the UK and their dependents.

Latest Income: £899
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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John Bunyan Leaver Charity (known Locally As East Farleigh Coal Charity)

Charitable activities, Facilities

The charity receives rent from allotments and uses the money primarily to give small donations to individuals experiencing problems. The money is also used to maintain the allotment site in good condition.

Latest Income: £892
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Stoke Climsland Charity Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

To provide grants for the advancement of education (including social and physical) training for persons under the age of 25 years and in need of assistance, who have attended Stoke Climsland Primary School .To provide grants to parishioners of Stoke Climsland who are suffering financial hardship or deprivation.

Latest Income: £890
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Wyndham Lecture Trust For The Borough Of Bridgwater

Charitable activities, Education

Makes grants to to shcools and the college in Bridgwater, Somerset.

Latest Income: £888
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Sem Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment

Grant making to specialist orginisations working on Climate Change. The trust does not suggest making applications unless asked by the trust. (Please note the trust has since April 2015 changed focus away from special education and community development, and may not respond to requests unless a request has been asked for by the trust)

Latest Income: £884
Areas of Operation: United States
Status: Registered
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M C A Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Making grants for religious activities and other general charitable purposes to individuals and to organisations, throughout England and Wales.

Latest Income: £879
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Cyril Edward Gourley Victoria Cross Endowment

Charitable activities, Education

Distributing annual grants to university students in the area covered by the West Kirby secondary schools

Latest Income: £877
Areas of Operation: Wirral
Status: Registered
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Women Friends Of London (box Meeting)

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

Grants to Quaker women in the London area

Latest Income: £870
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Chetana Educational Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Provide funds to selected organisations and individuals who promote the study of Sanskrit language and to educate children from poor background in order to elivate them from poverty trap to a better future in the following countries ;- UK, India, South Africa , Sri Lanka and Australia.

Latest Income: £861
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The R H Hobhouse Fund

Charitable activities

Estblished to make grants for charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £859
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Marlesford Old School Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Facilities

Marlesford Old School Fund provides grants to support young people living in the parish of Marlesford in starting school and undertaking educational activities.

Latest Income: £859
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Acton United Charity

Charitable activities, Social welfare

Relieving either generally or individually persons resident in Acton, Brindley, Burland or Worleston who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by making grants of money or providing or paying for items, services or facilities calculated to reduce the need, hardship or distress of such persons.

Latest Income: £859
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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The Annie Driver Award (icw The Cowling County Primary/ove

Charitable activities

Provision of Grants

Latest Income: £856
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Holmes Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

To give grants to those living in the Village of Arley and who are in higher Education or at University who are under 25years of age. And who ,in the opinion of the Trustees, are in need of financial assistance.

Latest Income: £855
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Tewkesbury Dispensary Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

general chariitble purposes to assist elderly/old people and elderly disabled and make grants to individuals make grants to organisations an provide services

Latest Income: £851
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Mrs Ann Wheeler

Charitable activities

Makes grants to individuals.

Latest Income: £850
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Lady Mary Townshend

Charitable activities, Education

Give grants to persons under the age of twenty five, resident in the town of Fakenham who are need of financial assistance in preparing for entry to or engaged in, any profession, trade, occupation or service or moving to higher education.

Latest Income: £848
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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John Allatt's Educational Foundation

Charitable activities

To provide grants for educational purposes to people who have reached their 11th birthday but not reached their 26th birthday on 1 September in the year in which they apply.

Latest Income: £847
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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Meifod Relief In Need Charity

Charitable activities

Provide small cash grants to people in need in the Meifod area, grant can not be applied for in person.

Latest Income: £844
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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The Aged Women's Pensions Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Established to make grants for charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £841
Areas of Operation: Liverpool City
Status: Registered
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Widow Turpin's Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Makes small grants to persons in need within the Parish of Weston Turville in the form of locally-redeemable foodstuffs vouchers. Also makes small grants to individuals or local organisations within the Parish to aid those who are sick or in medical need in the Parish.

Latest Income: £839
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Benjamin Tomkins

Charitable activities

Provision of charitable grants

Latest Income: £835
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Blackdown Or Smith's Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

GRANTS TO YOUNG PERSONS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. MUST HAVE HOME ADDRESS OF BROADWINDSOR, BURSTOCK, BLACKDOWN OR THORNCOMBE

Latest Income: £835
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Leverton's Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Educational grants to young people living in Waltham Abbey

Latest Income: £830
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Sir Matthew Holdworthy's Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

Makes Grants to Students completing a course in Further Education

Latest Income: £825
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
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 4,202 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?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). 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 £8.9bn 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 96.7%. 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 £1.4m. 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.