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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grant making

Discover 4,096 Charitable activities charities that specialise in Grant making. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,096
Charities
£8,234,488,247
Total Income
£1,476,244
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

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

Richard Henry Holmes Masonic Benevolent Fund

Associations, Charitable activities, Social welfare

TO MAKE GRANTS TO FREEMASONS AND THIER DEPENDENTS WHO ARE IN DISTRESS AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO MASONIC CHARITIES AND NON MASONIC CHARITIES WITHIN AND OUTWITH THE UK

Latest Income: £217,633
Areas of Operation: Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Status: Registered
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Edward Vinson 1957 Charity Settlement

Charitable activities

Makes small grants to charities and community organisations, mainly in the locality of Faversham in Kent. Applications by email only to [email protected], and please do not apply if you are an organisation working nationally or outside of the Faversham ME13 area as we will be unable to support your cause, however worthy

Latest Income: £215,660
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Malvernian Society Limited

Associations, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education

Raises funds from former pupils and friends of Malvern College in order to make grants to Malvern College and means-tested grants to former pupils of Malvern College doing training or research work.

Latest Income: £209,040
Areas of Operation: Worcestershire
Status: Registered
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The Ratcliff Foundation

Charitable activities

Grants are made to such charitable organisations as the trustees decide, particularly but not exclusively to those based in The Midlands and Wales. The Charity is not able to make grants to individuals.

Latest Income: £208,507
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Witney Town Charity

Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

The Charity operates 18 Almshouses for the poor and needy in the town of Witney, Oxfordshire. The Charity also provides grants for those in need within the area of West Oxfordshire.

Latest Income: £208,131
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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The Burden Trust

Charitable activities

The trust objectives are broad and its resources limited. Applicants should either on-line using the charity's web-site. If the trustees wish to follow up an application the secretary will request additional information. The trust does not give grants to individuals. The trustees meet annually in June to approve grant requests received by the preceding 31st March.

Latest Income: £205,603
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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North East Thames Quaker Trust

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

Grant making re relief of hardship, Friends education and advancement of religion among members and attenders of North East Thames Area Meeting (formerly Ratcliff and Barking Monthly Meeting) and members and attenders of other Area and Yearly Meetings and other institutions of the Religious Society of Friends.

Latest Income: £205,040
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Charity Of Hervey And Elizabeth Ekins

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

The object of the charity is to promote education in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of England of young persons residing in the area of benefit, that is the borough of Northampton and the parish of Great Doddington. It does this through grants to the school of the charity, Weston Favell CE Primary School, to individual young people and to churches and other organisations.

Latest Income: £198,765
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Dr Radcliffe's School Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

To provide finance to Dr Radcliffe's School Steeple Aston, to meet expenditure on building repairs and alterations to the School and special benefits that would not otherwise be provided by the LEA and to provide grants to eligible applicants for higher or further education or training and to local charities

Latest Income: £197,930
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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The William Arthur Rudd Memorial Trust

Charitable activities

The trust is a grant making charity and the trustees distribute the available income to a wide range of charities in the United Kingdom and a few select ones in Spain.

Latest Income: £189,962
Areas of Operation: Spain
Status: Registered
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The Guy Newton Research Fund

Charitable activities, Education, Research

Trustees make grants as requested to support research in the medical, biological and chemical sciences in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford.

Latest Income: £185,932
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Sir Harry Pilkington Fund

Charitable activities

Established to make grants for charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £183,299
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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J F W Deacon's Mabledon Charity

Charitable activities, Religion

PROVIDES GRANTS AND ASSISTANCE TO EVANGELICAL CHURCH SOCIETIES AND SIMILAR BODIES AND THOSE WORKING FOR THEM(A) TO THOSE WORKING FOR SUCH BODIES TO ENABLE THEM TO TAKE PERIODS OF REST OR RETREAT OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES (B) IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR CONFERENCES OR ORGANISING CONFERENCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH BODIES OR THOSE WORKING FOR THEM(C) TO FURTHER THE WORK OF SUCH BODIES.

Latest Income: £180,182
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Grail Foundation Of Great Britain

Arts, Charitable activities, Religion

- Establish Places of Worship according to the sense of the Grail Message.- Provide grants to maintain Places of Worship and support the dissemination of the Grail Message and associated literature in England and Scotland.

Latest Income: £179,063
Areas of Operation: Austria
Status: Registered
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The Western Union Of Unitarian And Free Christian Churches

Charitable activities, Religion

To support Ministry within the area of the Western Union. Constitutionally:"The Council shall transact the current business of the Union e.g. recommend to Annual and Special Meetings of the Union grants to be made towards the ministerial stipends paid by Congregations, ........"

Latest Income: £176,827
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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The David And Ruth Behrend Fund

Charitable activities

Established to make grants for charitable purposes.

Latest Income: £175,429
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Barham Benevolent Foundation

Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

To make grants to hardship cases in the dairy related business coupled with bursaries to colleges and universities for research in dairy related subjects

Latest Income: £173,325
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Stuart Young Foundation

Charitable activities

The charity awards grants to new Undergraduate students and new PhD scholars at the discretion of the Trustees and Allocation Panels and upon applicants fulfilling the criteria specified on the application form. These grants are typically for 3 years, commencing from Year 1.

Latest Income: £173,215
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Inman Charity

Charitable activities

The directors operate a grant giving policy,providing funds for such charitable objects or institutions as they think fit.

Latest Income: £172,252
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Ilminster Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO FOUR LOCAL SCHOOLS, TO SCHOOL PUPILS ON EDUCATIONAL TRIPS AND TO ILMINSTER BASED UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS. THERE IS ALSO PROVISION FOR A SMALL GRANT EACH YEAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PARISH OF ILMINSTER GENERALLY

Latest Income: £169,779
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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The Thomas Squire Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education

Our policy is to give grants to students entering further education for up to four years and one off grants for tools and other equipment to those starting apprenticeships or work training on the job. The area we cover is the ancient parishes of Elm, Emneth and Friday Bridge with Coldham. The charity only gives grants up to the age of twenty five.

Latest Income: £165,992
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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Cowbridge School Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The trust income is paid to the Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen Trust which provides special benefits over and above that provided by the Local Education Authority to Cowbridge Comprehensive School and may provide grants to pupils and former pupils. Trust land remaining is held to be used for the purposes of the School.

Latest Income: £165,229
Areas of Operation: Vale Of Glamorgan
Status: Registered
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The Marks Family Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Makes donations to Charities at the discretion of the Trustees

Latest Income: £158,167
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Henry Wood Accommodation Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Education, Housing

To advance the education of students attending colleges or courses in London for the purpose of receiving instruction in music, particularly those attending the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity Laban by making grants or otherwise to needy or deserving students to assist them with the cost of accommodation.

Latest Income: £155,438
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Society Of Saint Francis Central Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Defrays the costs of the Central Administration of the SSF & the expenses of its Ministers' General & First Order General Secretaries.Through its Development Fund, makes grants for the work of the Society of St Francis throughout the world.Through its Legacy Fund funds capital projects in Europe, provides long term support of elderly First Order Brothers & of SSF's work throughout the world.

Latest Income: £155,103
Areas of Operation: Various
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 4,096 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 (£589.5m). 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 £8.2bn 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 100.0%. 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 £1.5m. 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.