DAVID AND ELAINE POTTER FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1078217 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£205k
Grants listed (FY2025)
5
Listed grants total
£302k
Accounts grants total
£302k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.potterfoundation.com · www.potterfoundation.com/grant_recipients.html · www.potterfoundation.com/apply_for_funding.html on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • Education/training (10 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (3 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
  • Disability (1 grantee)
  • Recreation (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
  • Throughout London (5 grantees)
  • United States (4 grantees)
  • Malaysia (3 grantees)
  • India (3 grantees)
  • Scotland (3 grantees)
  • Belgium (3 grantees)
  • Germany (3 grantees)
  • Kenya (3 grantees)
  • Finland (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Trust for the Bureau of Investigative JournalismFY2025£200kCivil Society
Lumiere Crèche and Day Care CentreFY2025£42kEducation
PerformaFY2025£30kArts
Philharmonia Orchestra LtdFY2025£20kArts
Almeida TheatreFY2025£10kArts
Trust for the Bureau of Investigative JournalismFY2024£250kCivil Society - Governance
Lumiere Crèche and Day Care CentreFY2024£43kEducation
Death Penalty ProjectFY2024£30kCivil Society - Human Rights
ReprieveFY2024£30kCivil Society - Human Rights
Transparency International UKFY2024£30kCivil Society - Governance
Spotlight on CorruptionFY2024£30kCivil Society - Governance
PerformaFY2024£30kArts
University of Salford (repaid)FY2024£-3kCivil Society
University of Cape Town (repaid)FY2024£-72kEducation
Trust for the Bureau of Investigative JournalismFY2023£110kCivil Society - Governance
University of Cape TownFY2023£68kEducation
Open Trust (openDemocracy)FY2023£50kCivil Society - Governance
Transparency International UKFY2023£50kCivil Society - Governance
Border ForensicsFY2023£50kCivil Society – Human Rights
Future FrontiersFY2023£40kEducation
Spotlight on CorruptionFY2023£40kCivil Society - Governance
Lumiere Creche & Day Care CentreFY2023£37kEducation
Brilliant ClubFY2023£30kEducation
Access ProjectFY2023£30kEducation
Philharmonia OrchestraFY2023£30kArts
ReprieveFY2023£30kCivil Society – Human Rights
MyBigCareerFY2023£25kEducation
MS SocietyFY2023£20kNon-Strategic
Index on CensorshipFY2023£20kCivil Society – Human Rights
Hampstead TheatreFY2023£15kArts
Donmar WarehouseFY2023£10kArts
Almeida TheatreFY2023£10kArts

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 (listed sum 302465 vs reference 302465 (0.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.