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Funders: UK grant-making trusts and foundations
Free profiles of 50 UK charitable funders, built from 45,440 grants they published through 360Giving and from the Charity Commission register. Each page shows the funder's stated aims, typical grant sizes, example recipient organisations and the areas it funds.
Trusts and foundations
Making a Difference Locally
3,000 grants · median £500
Benefact Trust
2,942 grants · median £4,300
Henry Smith Foundation
1,756 grants · median £4,505
The Foyle Foundation
1,380 grants · median £6,950
The Wellcome Trust
1,335 grants · median £833k
Garfield Weston Foundation
1,134 grants · median £20k
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
1,075 grants · median £120k
The Clothworkers Foundation
1,075 grants · median £10k
City Bridge Foundation
920 grants · median £90k
A B Charitable Trust
901 grants · median £25k
Freemasons’ Charity
765 grants · median £8,915
The Veterans' Foundation
664 grants · median £30k
John Lyon's Charity
632 grants · median £18k
Architectural Heritage Fund
518 grants · median £15k
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
508 grants · median £126k
Wolfson Foundation
506 grants · median £90k
CHK Foundation
470 grants · median £20k
The Grocers' Charity
428 grants · median £5,000
Westminster Foundation
412 grants · median £10k
Charles Hayward Foundation
397 grants · median £18k
The Woodward Charitable Trust
355 grants · median £1,200
The Ballinger Charitable Trust
339 grants · median £30k
Youth Music
329 grants · median £30k
Haberdashers' Company
317 grants · median £2,000
National Churches Trust
312 grants · median £5,000
The Leathersellers' Foundation
297 grants · median £5,000
Community foundations
Quartet Community Foundation
2,378 grants · median £3,000
Community Foundation North East
1,941 grants · median £4,670
Point North
1,819 grants · median £4,050
Heart of England Community Foundation
1,745 grants · median £4,994
Herefordshire Community Foundation
1,361 grants · median £568
Essex Community Foundation
1,346 grants · median £4,444
Forever Manchester
1,024 grants · median £1,218
Community Foundation for Surrey
1,012 grants · median £5,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside
989 grants · median £3,500
Leeds Community Foundation
937 grants · median £5,000
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
809 grants · median £5,000
Community Foundation for Calderdale
808 grants · median £3,728
Cornwall Community Foundation
791 grants · median £3,000
Devon Community Foundation
735 grants · median £5,000
Somerset Community Foundation
723 grants · median £3,000
Community Foundation in Wales
641 grants · median £2,500
Sussex Community Foundation
630 grants · median £5,000
Northamptonshire Community Foundation
537 grants · median £3,000
Cheshire Community Foundation
529 grants · median £4,986
Hertfordshire Community Foundation
424 grants · median £5,000
Camden Giving
400 grants · median £2,000
Corporate foundations
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales
410 grants · median £75k
Virgin Money Foundation
384 grants · median £2,000
The Berkeley Foundation
300 grants · median £5,000
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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving, under each publisher's own open licence (named on each page; we only use data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence), and the Charity Commission register. Funders were chosen by the amount of recent published grant data; any funder without enough data to make a useful page is left out. See also our directory of UK public sector buyers.
Licence: Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Last updated: 23 October 2026.