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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.

The Houghton Trust Limited

Charitable activities

Makes grants to individuals.

Latest Income: £101,301
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Ardwick Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The object of the charity is the making of grants to chartable causes chosen by the trustees at their absolute discretion.This includes many medical and relief of poverty charities

Latest Income: £101,283
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Risley Educational Foundation

Arts, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

1) PROMOTING INSTRUCTION IN CHURCH OF ENGLAND DOCTRINES. 2) PROVISION OF SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR SCHOOLS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. 3) PROVISION OF GRANTS FOR FURTHER EDUCATION, ASSISTANCES IN PURCHASE OF BOOKS OR EQUIPMENT, ONLY WITHIN THE PARISHES OF SANDIACRE, STANTON BY DALE, DRAYCOTT, BREASTON, RISLEY, CHURCH WILNE, DALE AB

Latest Income: £100,939
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
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Mrs Wingfield's Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Charity's objective is to provide funds for general charitable purposes at the discretion of the trustees.The charity does not accept unsolicited requests for grants or help with further, higher or private education fees.

Latest Income: £100,066
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Wogen Anniversary Trust

Charitable activities

The charity makes grants to registered charities, organisations with charitable objects which are exempt from the requirement for charitable registration and which are based in the U.K., and other charitable causes.

Latest Income: £100,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Mitchell City Of London Charity

Charitable activities

To offer pensions to those of state pension age, there may be exceptions slightly below that age, who have lived or worked within the City of London for a minimum of 5 years. To offer grants to charities in the City of London, or with a connection to the City of London. The 'City' is the 'square mile', almost all EC3, EC4, small area of EC1, EC2 - not Greater London.

Latest Income: £96,241
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Lady Lumley's Educational Foundation

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education

Awarding grants to Lady Lumley's School Pickering North Yorkshire and to individuals under twenty-five living in the locality for educational purposes and assisting them into employment

Latest Income: £95,814
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Cowley's Endowed Schools Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

To provide funds for educational purposes as the trustees see fit for beneficiaries who are under the age of 25 and have resided in the Parishes of Donington, Bicker, Quadring, Swineshead, Gosberton, Horbling, Swaton and Helpringham for no less than 2 years and who have attended for not less than 2 years either The Thomas Cowley Primary School or the Thomas Cowley High School in Donington.

Latest Income: £94,410
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Charities Of James Tilden For Baptists

Charitable activities

Once the cost of repairs, insurances and all other outgoings in respect of its properties had been met, along with all the other costs and charges associated with administration and management, the Charities continued to make various grants to support local Particular Baptist churches in the county of Kent as per the objectives of its founding scheme of 1896.

Latest Income: £92,528
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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College Of Arms Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Heritage

The principal objects of the Charity are to provide funds for:1) the preservation and repair of the College of Arms building2) the establishment and maintenance of a Museum of Heraldry for the benefit of the public3) such other legally charitable purposes in connection with the College of Arms as the trustees and the College may determine from time-to-time

Latest Income: £91,897
Areas of Operation: City Of London
Status: Registered
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The Comino Foundation

Charitable activities

A grant making education charity working chiefly through its Comino Centres, carefully selected beneficiaries and a programme of Seminars & Consultations.

Latest Income: £91,689
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Walter Swindon Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The charity makes grants to a variety of charitable institutions for such charitable purposes as the trustees at their discretion determine. The main receipients in 2007 was the Institute For Child Health and the United Synagoque.

Latest Income: £90,380
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Dr Richard Solomons' Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

Grant making to small-scale charitable organisations usually with an annual income of under ?500,000 and minimal admin costs. Charities should have a focus on long-term sustainability and integrated community development and are usually based outside the UK. Donations usually around ?3000, ongoing funding is possible once a relationship has been established. Must have UK bank account.

Latest Income: £87,488
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Pattenmakers Company Charitable Foundation

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Religion

THIS CHARITY IS THE CHARITABLE ARM OF ONE OF THE CITY OF LONDON'S ANCIENT LIVERY COMPANIES. IT DOES NOT DIRECTLY PERFORM CHARITABLE WORK BUT CONCENTRATES ON (A) FUNDRAISING AND (B) MAKING GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS IN FOUR AREAS, NAMELY, (I) EDUCATION (II) THE CITY OF LONDON (III) THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY (IV) ITS GUILD CHURCH AND (V) TO ANY OTHER CHARITABLE CAUSES AT ITS DISCRETION.

Latest Income: £87,267
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Pearn Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Housing

The objects of the charity, as amended on 15 June 2004, are the provision of care for persons in need, mainly in the inner Plymouth area, and the trustees may relieve those eligible for assistance by making direct grants or providing goods and services and by making grants to other persons or bodies who provide such assistance.

Latest Income: £86,659
Areas of Operation: Plymouth City
Status: Registered
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The St Hilda's Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The Trustees main areas of concern within its overall objectives are children and young people who are disadvantaged in some way.The Trust makes grants to organisations for charitable purposes, although these organisations need not necessarily be registered charities. Also, particular consideration will be given to projects for which there is a degree of church involvement or interest.

Latest Income: £86,483
Areas of Operation: Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Status: Registered
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The David Brooke Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The charity makes grants to institutions for such charitable purposes as the trustees may determine and in particular for those institutions concerned with the relief of children and young persons in need.

Latest Income: £85,970
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Oakley Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Making grants to charitable organisations

Latest Income: £83,838
Areas of Operation: Jersey
Status: Registered
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The Bowland Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Supporting individuals, charities and other charitable organisations, primarily by the provision of grants and gifting educational equipment. The majority of the support provided is to outdoor and character building activities by young people based in the North West of England and edcuational, religious and cultural activities and institutions.

Latest Income: £83,632
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Sheffield Bluecoat And Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Trustees offer grants to young people under 25 living within a 20 mile radius of Sheffield city centre, who have, in the opinion of the Trustees, demonstrated need. Grants are made for a variety of purposes: education; study of music and other arts; physical education; 'Gap year' trips abroad and to local Youth Organisations.

Latest Income: £82,805
Areas of Operation: Sheffield City
Status: Registered
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The William Webster Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The trustee(s) distribute the income arising in accordance with the terms of the trust in making grants to such various charitable organisations at their discretion.

Latest Income: £80,407
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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David Solomons Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Makes grants to organisations, with particular emphasis on those organisations providing services or other benefits for those with learning difficulties.

Latest Income: £79,802
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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V And E Fleming 1964 Trust

Charitable activities

The Trustees make grants generally to registered charities with a wide range of charitable objects. Applications for financial assistance from charities unknown to the trustees are not encouraged and in the interests of time and cost, will not normally receive a reply.

Latest Income: £79,504
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Harvest Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The principal focus of the charity is to make grants for (a) the relief of poverty and (b) Christian mission, both within and outside the United Kingdom.

Latest Income: £78,472
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Italian Medical Charity

Charitable activities, Health

The charity operates in the whole of the UK by making appropriate grants to sick or disabled persons of Italian nationality or descent, or those caring for them, as well as similar organisations operating in the UK.

Latest Income: £77,115
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
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.