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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,408 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,408
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 Baily Thomas Charitable Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Fund is a grant making Charitable Trust which awards grants in accordance with it's charitable objectives of the prevention, treatment or relief of mental or other forms of illness. Since 2001 the Trustees' funding priority has been solely learning disability.

Latest Income: £2,169,908
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Church Burgesses Trust

Charitable activities, Religion

The Trust makes grants:to support general charitable purposes for the benefit of the people of Sheffield, and to support the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in Sheffield.

Latest Income: £2,151,855
Areas of Operation: Sheffield City
Status: Registered
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The Carpenters Company Charitable Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Education

The charity supports the Building Crafts College through an annual grant and also makes grants to other charities and individuals within the building craft.

Latest Income: £1,975,170
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Harborne Parish Lands Charity

Charitable activities, Housing

THE CHARITY WORKS WITHIN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF HARBORNE (HARBORNE & SMETHWICK AND PARTS OF QUINTON AND BEARWOOD). IT PROVIDES GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS WHICH SUPPORT PEOPLE IN THE AREA AND ALSO PROVIDES HOUSING WITH SUPPORT FOR 100 ELDELY OR DISABLED PEOPLE

Latest Income: £1,970,340
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The Kirby Laing Foundation

Charitable activities

This is a grant-making trust offering financial support to other UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable purposes throughout the UK & overseas. Capital or project funding is favoured over revenue funding.

Latest Income: £1,961,554
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Sutton Coldfield Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Heritage, Housing, Leisure, Social welfare

Within Sutton Coldfield :To provide Almshouses and related benefits for elderly beneficiaries. Make grants for the relief of persons who may be elderly, disadvantaged, disabled or in need of medical assistance.To provide special benefits to local education authority schools, places of worship, historic buildings and support community groups, recreation and leisure.

Latest Income: £1,899,000
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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Maharishi Foundation

Charitable activities, Education, Health

Advancement of the education of the public by: 1) Offering courses of instruction to the public that will promote the mental and creative development of the individual, including Transcendental Meditation and related advanced techniques. 2) Establishing, conducting and maintaining an institution of further education and additional educational facilities. 3) Making grants to other charities.

Latest Income: £1,839,811
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Lloyd's Of London Foundation

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Saving of lives

Grant making foundation supporting and working in partnership with charitable organisations with a focus on education, employment, skills and disaster relief.

Latest Income: £1,540,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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British Record Industry Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Founded by the recorded music industry in 1989, The BRIT Trust works to promote diversity and inclusion in the UK by empowering people of all backgrounds through music and the creative arts. The BRIT Trust makes donations to support education and wellbeing activities that inspire people to realise their full potential and life chances, whatever their abilities, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

Latest Income: £1,537,466
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Charity Of Richard Cloudesley

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

The Charity's area of benefit is the London Borough of Islington where, through programmes of pro-active grant-making, the Charity's aim is to help those who are sick and poor and to support twenty seven Church of England churches.

Latest Income: £1,517,000
Areas of Operation: Islington
Status: Registered
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The Royal Signals Charity

Charitable activities, Leisure, Religion, Social welfare

To provide grants for deserving welfare cases that are within the objects of the Charity.To fund the activities of the serving, reserves and retired members of Royal Corps of Signals, that attract no or only partial funding from the Ministry of Defence, in order to foster effectiveness, morale, teamwork, fitness, professional development, comradeship and esprit de corps.

Latest Income: £1,515,171
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Charity Of John Marshall

Charitable activities, Heritage, Religion

a) to support as Patrons the parish church of Christ Church, Southwark;b) to make grants for the support of parsonages to dioceses of the Church of England and the Church in Wales; c) to make restoration and repair grants to Anglican churches in the three counties of Kent, Surrey and Lincolnshire; andd) 4% of the net income is made available to Marshall's Educational Foundation

Latest Income: £1,499,433
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Royal Engineers Association

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants who are in need through poverty. To make grants, within Association Guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities that further the objectives of the Association.

Latest Income: £1,437,036
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Royal Society Of Musicians Of Great Britain

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Society, a charity for musicians run by musicians, provides grants and support to professional musicians and their families in need because of accident, illness or old age whether or not they are members. Founded in 1738 as the Fund for Decay'd Musicians, early members included Handel, Arne, Boyce and Sammartini. Today it maintains its tradition of responding swiftly to needs of colleagues.

Latest Income: £1,420,536
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust provides grants of varying sizes to an array of charitable organisations.If you wish to apply for a grant we now only accept online applications via the website address shown.

Latest Income: £1,391,843
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Loseley Christian Trust

Charitable activities, Religion

Making grants to charitable associations, trusts, societies & corporations with specific reference to: (1) The Promotion of Christian healing & the support of those providing such healing. (2) The promotion of the Christian faith & support of institutions, individuals & buildings involved or used for Christian worship or other charitable activities associated with the Christian Church.

Latest Income: £1,380,461
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education, Research

To raise funds in support of the educational, research, clinical and animal welfare activities of the Royal Veterinary College. Funds are raised using a variety of methods, from members of the public, College Alumni, grant-making trusts, companies and other voluntary sources.

Latest Income: £1,341,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Colwinston Charitable Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Trust distributes grants to UK Registered Charities working predominantly in the areas of Opera, Music and the Visual Arts, and library and archive projects in Wales. The Trust seeks to sustain and support high quality artistic activities that add to the cultural life and experiences available in the UK, especially in Wales where over 80% of its grants are directed.

Latest Income: £1,312,469
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Research

The objectives of the Trust, through its grant-making, are the advancement of science and medicine, health and disability, education, the arts and humanities. The Trust pursues these activities, usually by the provision of buildings and equipment.

Latest Income: £1,274,533
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Pilgrim Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The Pilgrim Trust makes grants to other charities and public bodies in the fields of preservation and scholarship and social welfare. It works within the priorities that are set by the Trustees and funds specific programmes that are outlined on its website.

Latest Income: £1,238,983
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Hampton Fuel Allotment

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development

Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity supports families and individuals on low income with a grant to help with the costs of gas and electricity; and supports organisations to provide services and activities for those in need through grantmaking.

Latest Income: £1,199,219
Areas of Operation: Richmond Upon Thames
Status: Registered
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The Sobell Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

The Sobell Foundation is a grant-making trust. Funding is generally restricted to charities working in the following fields: medical care and treatment; care and education for physically and mentally disabled people; homelessness; and care and support for the elderly and children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In Israel only the Trustees support coexistence and immigrant absorption projects.

Latest Income: £1,184,037
Areas of Operation: Israel
Status: Registered
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The Cornwall Heritage Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage

Acquisition and maintenance of land and buildings of significance to Cornwall's Heritage and presentation of such sites to to the public. Provision of grants to support preservation of buildings artefacts and other items or contributions of significance to Cornwall's Heritage. Education of of the public and in particular education of young people about Cornwall's Heritage.

Latest Income: £1,182,658
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Balcombe Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Trust makes grants only to registered charitable organisations or organisations with charitable objects that are exempt from the requirement for charitable registration. No grants are made to individuals. The Trust generally supports projects in the fields of education, the environment and health and welfare.

Latest Income: £1,172,661
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Robert Mcalpine Foundation

Charitable activities

The Foundation exists to apply its funds and income for the benefit of such charitable purposes or charitable institutions as the Trustees in their discretion determine.The Foundation operates virtually exclusively by making identified benefit grants to carefully selected charitable organisations with less than ?1m income working in the sectors which the Foundation particularly wishes to support

Latest Income: £1,123,599
Areas of Operation: Scotland
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 4,408 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.