IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£169k

Grants listed (FY2025)

0 with amounts · 12 amount not stated

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£29k

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

What they fund: The Iran Heritage Foundation awards competitive grants to researchers across various academic disciplines, with a particular focus on archaeology, art, history, linguistics, literature, and music.
How to apply: The first cycle of the Iran Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Grant Programme is now closed. The second cycle will open later this year.
Deadlines: Round 3 of the Call for Proposals is now closed. The next round will be in 2027. Please look out for an announcement in due course!

Summarised from www.ihf.org.uk · ihf.org.uk/grants-awarded-in-2025/ · ihf.org.uk/grants-awarded-in-2024/ on 18/10/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Dr Assef Ashraf	FY2025	amount not stated	E.G. Browne and the Making of Iranian Studies
Dr Maryam Heydarkhani	FY2025	amount not stated	Living Architecture: Social and Spatial Transformations of Qajar Madrasas in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Dr Richard McClary	FY2025	amount not stated	Iranian Lustre Ware: The Vessels and Sherds (1150-1300)
Dr Siavash Rafiee Rad	FY2025	amount not stated	Language Diversity in Iran (16th century to 18th century)
Dr Hosein Hadisi & Ms Solmaz Naraghi	FY2025	amount not stated	Alpha Bird (Alphabetic Bird)
Dr Yusen Yu	FY2025	amount not stated	Chairs and Change: Furnishing Mongol Iran
Leila Danesh	FY2025	amount not stated	Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of the Iranian World
Dr Hamid Shakeri	FY2025	amount not stated	A Sociological Study of Modern Painting in Qajar Iran
Dr Hannah Caroe	FY2025	amount not stated	Hotu Cave: 12,000 years of prehistory and history in NE Iran
Ms Shirin Fathi	FY2025	amount not stated	Demonic Skins
Ms Leila Danesh	FY2025	amount not stated	Stucco in the Borderlands
Professor Babaie and Dr Ecker	FY2025	amount not stated	Stars Over Mashhad
Mani Nickpour	FY2023	amount not stated	for attending the Kanazawa Film Festival 23 in Japan
Hamid Keshmirshekan	FY2023	amount not stated	for publication of his book Rethinking Contemporary Artists in Iran
M. Assemi	FY2022	£3k	publication of book "Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran"

14 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals. Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].