Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Grants to organisations
Discover 7,341 Charitable activities charities that specialise in grants to organisations. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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The Vinehill Trust
Arts, Charitable activitiesSupporting health, heritage and music in the UK and abroad through grant making.
The Big Give Trust
Charitable activities, Social welfarefor the public benefit, the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the advancement of religion and such other charitable purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine (primarily, but not exclusively, by the making of grants to, or otherwise supporting, existing charities).
The Access To Justice Foundation
Charitable activitiesThe Access to Justice Foundation receives and distributes additional financial resources to support the provision of free of charge (pro bono) legal assistance to those in need. The Foundation is the recipient of Pro Bono Costs under Section 194 Legal Services Act 2007. Working with the Legal Support Trusts and national organisations, it makes grants to support pro bono projects.
Nns Foundation
Charitable activitiesThe Charity is a grant-maker and furthers its charitable purposes by making grants to support a range of charitable projects.
Choose Love
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Environment, Saving of livesIn both emergency disaster relief and protracted crises, Choose Love works to identify, close and prevent gaps in support displaced people around the world. We provide grants and other assistance to frontline partners along key migration routes and in countries experiencing conflict, persecution climate change and other drivers of forced displacement.
The Clothworkers' Foundation
Charitable activitiesTo make grants to UK frontline charities to support projects or programmes in defined areas of need.
Institute Of Our Lady Of Mercy
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing, Social careThe Charity's activities are carried on by individual Sisters acting within parish communities and the wider community. It runs and supports Catholic schools and care homes. The Trustees care for their own Sisters who are retiring from active work. The Charity also makes grants to beneficiaries and assists other charities with similar objects.
The Raphael Freshwater Memorial Association
Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfareThe charity promotes religious education and observance within the tenets of Orthodox Judaism and is involved in the relief of poverty. The charity makes grants to organisations and institutions which operate in the charitable fields mentioned above.
John Lyon's Charity
Beneficiary group, Charitable activitiesJohn Lyon's Charity gives grants to benefit children and young people up to the age of 25 who live in nine boroughs in northwest London. Grants are awarded to registered charities and organisations with automatic charitable status.
The Generation Foundation
Charitable activitiesThe Generation Foundation seeks to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economic system; one that is aligned with a low-carbon, prosperous, healthy, safe and fair society. The Foundation executes this mission through research, major partnerships, grant-making, and through the matched giving programme for Generation employees.
Cumbria Community Foundation
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, EducationWe make grants to local charities, groups and individuals, manage grant-making funds on behalf of individuals and organisations, and promote giving to build long term capital funds to benefit the community in the future.Our grants target activities which help children and young people, older people and their carers, people with disabilities, the unemployed and people on low incomes.
The Chartered Institute Of Taxation
Charitable activitiesAs an educational charity, we work to improve the administration and practice of taxation to the benefit of all affected by it: protecting the public by monitoring Chartered Tax Advisers' compliance with regulations; setting and administering tax examinations; advising government on proposed and enacted tax legislation; giving general tax education on websites; and making grants for tax research.
The Launan Charitable Trust
Charitable activitiesThe Charity is a grant making trust applying funds to charitable causes at the trustees discretion.
Asser Bishvil Foundation
Charitable activitiesTo pursue the objects of the charity with all the resources available to the charity.The charity is a grant making charity in line with the objects of the charity.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation
Charitable activitiesHertfordshire Community Foundation has five main areas of activity: * Development and management of charitable funds * Grant making * Capacity building, community support and cross section liaison * Research * Other services relating to the development and delivery of philanthropy.
Stephen Taylor Foundation
Charitable activitiesGRANT MAKING
Japan House London Trust
Charitable activities, HeritageMakes grants to charitable projects and organisations (particularly Japan House London) and carries out activities which advance the culture (both traditional and modern), institutions, people, heritage, history and language of Japan.
The Jongen Charitable Trust
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfareThe charity is an independent grant-making organisation created to benefit the public in general by making grants to selected charitable organisations that work in the broad areas of disadvantaged young people, homelessness, refugees and asylum seekers, education and access to opportunity. Applications for funding are by invitation only and we are unable to respond to unsolicited proposals.
Khodorkovsky Foundation
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfareThe charity supports the Podmoskovny Lyceum, a boarding school for 168 socially deprived children, situated outside of Moscow, Russia, and provides grants for student scholarships in Russia and the UK.
Btp
Charitable activitiesA grant-making charitable trust, established to support the work of charities, organisations, and individuals working to effect change and create a more equal and sustainable future.
The London Community Foundation
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Social welfareThe London Community Foundation makes a difference to the lives of Londoners by connecting people who need help with those who are willing to give. That's what we do. We are dedicated to improving the lives of London's most disadvantaged. Child poverty, unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence and gang crime are just some of the issues we are tackling through our grant making.
The A B Charitable Trust
Charitable activitiesGrants to UK registered charities which operate in the UK
Giving What We Can UK
Charitable activities, Charity and VCS supportGiving What We Can UK advances education and promotes the voluntary sector, charity effectiveness, and impactful resource use by conducting research to identify and support highly effective charities, disseminating useful research findings, and providing guidance to maximise charitable impact. Its activities include advising, researching, making grants, and advocating for effective giving.
Cymru Football Foundation Limited
Charitable activities, LeisureThe Charity supports the development of football facilities in Wales through the offering of grants to successful applicants to provide inspirational fit-for-future football facilities that will improve and grow Welsh football on and off the pitch.
The Tudor Trust
Charitable activitiesThe Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust. We fund projects across the UK, aiming to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of Society. We do not focus on specific themes or programmes.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many grants-to-organisations charitable activities charities are there in the UK?
There are 7,341 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?
Lloyd's Register Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£691.7m). 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 £17.8bn 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 85.8%. 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 £1.1m. 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.