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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grants to organisations

Discover 3,611 Charitable activities charities that specialise in grants to organisations. Use the search below to filter within these results.

3,611
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 Hospital Of Gilbert, Earl Of Shrewsbury At Sheffield

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Housing

1. Maintenance of Almshouses which are occupied by in-pensioners. 2. Grants to other local charities.

Latest Income: £557,199
Areas of Operation: Sheffield City
Status: Registered
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Jill And Norman Franklin Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Heritage, Social welfare

Grants to organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers, people with mental health or learning disabilities, desistance from crime, domestic violence. Grants are given to organisations working in NE England and Central Scotland. A small number of grants are given for restoration of architecturally important churches. Refer to our website for current application policies.

Latest Income: £556,611
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Marchig Animal Welfare Trust

Charitable activities

Providing grants to encourage initiatives designed to improve animal welfare and protection, promote alternative methods to the use of animals in experiments and encourage practical work in alleviating suffering, preventing cruelty and improving conditions for animals.

Latest Income: £555,534
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Doris Field Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The trustees support a diverse range of charities and projects, ranging from small individual grants to contributions to large projects, in accordance with the Trust's charitable objectives and in line with the grant making policy.

Latest Income: £555,419
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Additional Curates Society

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The additional curates society awards grants to poor and populous parishes, and parishes in new areas, so that they can employ a curate. A work they have been doing since 1837. The society also encourages and fosters vocations to the priesthood.

Latest Income: £555,224
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Boots Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education

A grant making Trust wholly funded by Boots UK Ltd. The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care.Currently the Trust focuses its giving in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Latest Income: £553,029
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Congregational And General Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Religion

Independent grant-making charity supporting churches, particularly United Reformed & Congregational denominations in the provision and repair of suitable buildings. Grants awarded for care and extension of churches, towards capital costs of church community projects and to promote the Christian religion including the United Reformed, Congregational and other churches of the Protestant tradition.

Latest Income: £548,548
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Society For Reproduction And Fertility

Arts, Charitable activities, Research

Supports research, education and training in reproductive biology and reproductive science.Holds one or two national or international conferences each year, sometimes in association with other learned societies.Provides grants in support of travel, special publications and other activities as agreed by the the Society's Council of Management.Owns and publishes an academic journal: Reproduction

Latest Income: £547,320
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Seafarers Hospital Society

Charitable activities, Health

The Society assists seafarers and their dependants in need by making grants to qualifying individuals, as well as to selected organisations. Applications for individual assistance may be made at any time

Latest Income: £544,019
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Bradley Trust

Charitable activities, Facilities, Leisure

Provide village hall for use of residents of Bradley parish at subsidised rates for leisure and educational purposes. Gives grants to organisations in Bradley and some individual educational grants. All grants strictly limited to residents of Bradley parish.

Latest Income: £538,134
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Reifer Memorial Limited

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

Provision of grants to institutions to assist Jewish religious education and for the general charitable purposes, including relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £535,965
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Locker Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

Make grants to organisations (including schools, charities, etc.)

Latest Income: £535,223
Areas of Operation: Barnet
Status: Registered
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The Green Hall Foundation

Charitable activities

Grant making charity. Grants can only be made to registered charities. Preference is for grants to assist in funding special projects rather than general grants. Full guidelines obtainable from the Correspondent or through the website of the Foundation.

Latest Income: £534,774
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Women's Royal Army Corps Association (incorporating Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps And Auxiliary Territorial Service Comrades Association)

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Maintaining contact between former members of the QMAAC, ATS and WRAC and women still serving in the ARMY.Fostering esprit de Corps, comradeship and welfare.To relieve those in need by making grants or providing or paying for goods, services or facilities for them.

Latest Income: £520,240
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Lilian Frances Hind Bequest (trustees Of Lady Hind)

Charitable activities

The sole activity of the trust is the giving of grants

Latest Income: £519,478
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

Makes grants to charitable organisations around the world whose purposes are to help young or disadvantaged people, especially anyone suffering deprivation and discrimination, such as poor, homeless and vulnerable women and children, minority communities, particularly where people are affected by: poverty, a lack of education, malnutrition and disease

Latest Income: £513,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Patrick & Helena Frost Foundation

Charitable activities

Making grants to charitable organisations, including smaller organisations where a considerable amount of self help and voluntary effort is required. The Trustees of the Foundation proactively seek and select organisations to which they wish to award grants. The Trustees kindly request that unsolicited applications are not submitted as, regretfully, they will not be considered or responded to.

Latest Income: £510,283
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Wo Street Charitable Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

This grant-making foundation supports a wide range of activities in the following categories: education, general welfare (particularly the elderly, the blind and the disabled) and family and social welfare. Grants are made to UK registered charities and to organisations with charitable status. Special support is given to the County of Lancashire, as defined before local government reorganisation.

Latest Income: £503,758
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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York Civic Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development

To preserve, protect and advise on the historic fabric of York. To publish promote and educate the public and encourage their participation in cultural activities. To provide advocacy in areas of concern to York. To make grants which concur with the trust's objectives. To raise and pay funds in the furtherance of the objects and co-operate with others having similar objects.

Latest Income: £500,305
Areas of Operation: City Of York
Status: Registered
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Adenfirst Limited

Charitable activities

Making grants to charitable organisations selected in accordance with the company's objects.

Latest Income: £499,520
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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St Saviours Medical Charity

Charitable activities, Health

Individual patients' grants for in-patient treatment when NHS lists are excessively long and quality of life is seriously affected. One-off grants to other local, worthy causes.

Latest Income: £492,208
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Parivar Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Grant-making for education and health projects to benefit children, young people and women, in the U.K, especially Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the Bristol area, and India.

Latest Income: £491,564
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Shri Radhe Foundation

Charitable activities

To provide grants to institutions which are of religious and social importance.

Latest Income: £490,844
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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Scarborough Theatre Development Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Main activity - to promote, maintain, improve and advance education by supporting, through making grants, such of the purposes of Scarborough Theatre Trust Ltd, in such a manner as the trustees think fit.

Latest Income: £488,798
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Francis Winham Foundation

Charitable activities

The objects of the trust are apply the trust fund and income thereof towards the benefit of old and aged people in England.The trustees receive applications and make grants to registered charitable organisations in England, or to organisations in England the activities of which are compatible with the charitable objectives of the trust.

Latest Income: £487,459
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities are there in the UK?

There are 3,611 registered grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the grants-to-organisations 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 grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities?

Grants-to-organisations 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 grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities?

Across all grants-to-organisations 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 grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities?

Grants-to-organisations 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.