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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.

7,341
Charities
£17,799,675,132
Total Income
£1,065,402
Avg Income
85.8%
Program Ratio

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

The Vinehill Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Supporting health, heritage and music in the UK and abroad through grant making.

Latest Income: £14,040,177
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Big Give Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

for 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).

Latest Income: £13,309,119
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Access To Justice Foundation

Charitable activities

The 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.

Latest Income: £13,275,093
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Nns Foundation

Charitable activities

The Charity is a grant-maker and furthers its charitable purposes by making grants to support a range of charitable projects.

Latest Income: £13,085,239
Areas of Operation: Egypt
Status: Registered
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Choose Love

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Environment, Saving of lives

In 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.

Latest Income: £12,593,084
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Clothworkers' Foundation

Charitable activities

To make grants to UK frontline charities to support projects or programmes in defined areas of need.

Latest Income: £12,329,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Institute Of Our Lady Of Mercy

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing, Social care

The 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.

Latest Income: £11,889,793
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Raphael Freshwater Memorial Association

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £11,695,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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John Lyon's Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

John 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.

Latest Income: £11,506,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Generation Foundation

Charitable activities

The 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.

Latest Income: £11,477,568
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Cumbria Community Foundation

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

We 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.

Latest Income: £11,470,244
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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The Chartered Institute Of Taxation

Charitable activities

As 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.

Latest Income: £11,301,708
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Launan Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The Charity is a grant making trust applying funds to charitable causes at the trustees discretion.

Latest Income: £10,943,810
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Asser Bishvil Foundation

Charitable activities

To 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.

Latest Income: £10,846,986
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Hertfordshire Community Foundation

Charitable activities

Hertfordshire 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.

Latest Income: £10,709,109
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Stephen Taylor Foundation

Charitable activities

GRANT MAKING

Latest Income: £10,188,376
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Japan House London Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

Makes 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.

Latest Income: £10,084,333
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Jongen Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £10,053,100
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Khodorkovsky Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £9,673,533
Areas of Operation: Lithuania
Status: Registered
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Btp

Charitable activities

A 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.

Latest Income: £9,363,776
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The London Community Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £9,328,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The A B Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Grants to UK registered charities which operate in the UK

Latest Income: £8,834,184
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Giving What We Can UK

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support

Giving 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.

Latest Income: £8,783,515
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Cymru Football Foundation Limited

Charitable activities, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £8,773,281
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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The Tudor Trust

Charitable activities

The 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.

Latest Income: £8,543,000
Areas of Operation: Various
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 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.