SHELL FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£29.3m
Grants listed (FY2024)
9
Listed grants total
£11.0m
Accounts grants total
£8.4m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd | FY2024 | £3.8m | To catalyse and nurture the project "Harvesting the power of green energy for smallholder farmers" Chain. |
| Google LLC - X Division | FY2024 | £1.9m | Cross Theme |
| Upaya Social Ventures | FY2024 | £1.3m | UPAYA's charitable mission focuses on creating jobs for people living in poverty by supporting energy enterprises in India and SSA. |
| BFA Global | FY2024 | £1.3m | The Climate and Finance Innovations Alliance (ClimaFii) provides support to energy enterprises and SMEs/startups in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 4 R Digital Limited | FY2024 | £1.2m | For piloting PUE assets and providing financing solutions for energy use, we will launch DayLipa Finance. |
| Accion International | FY2024 | £752k | The project's objective is to offer technical assistance to financial solution providers and to function as the overall program manager. |
| Kofa Holdings Limited | FY2024 | £650k | To scale the supply of affordable batteries and 2W EVs, we will accelerate the scale-up of Kofa in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). |
| AFEX Fair Trade Limited | FY2024 | £50k | To pilot a new distribution model for the supply of a range of productive use of energy (PUE) assets to hard-to-reach and marginalized small holder farmers in rural Nigeria. |
| UOMA (Open Capital Advisors - Uganda Market Accelerator) | FY2024 | £40k | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities |
| SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) | FY2023 | £4.1m | To catalyse and nurture the Electric Vehicle (“EV”) Asset Financing Value Chain. |
| Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) | FY2023 | £2.7m | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities. |
| Villgro Innovations Foundation | FY2023 | £1.8m | For piloting PUE assets for Smallholder farmers on the ITC Ltd platform in India to test financial sustainability and impact of PUE assets on the income of farmers. |
| African Mini-Grid Developers Association (AMDA) | FY2023 | £1.4m | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities. |
| AFEX Fair Trade Limited | FY2023 | £1.3m | To pilot a new distribution model for the supply of a range of productive use of energy (PUE) assets to hard-to-reach and marginalized small holder farmers in rural Nigeria. |
| Odyssey Energy Solutions Inc | FY2023 | £1.3m | For the expansion of Odyssey’s Results Based Financing (RBF) platform across newer applications towards a path to viability. |
| 4 R Digital Limited | FY2023 | £1.3m | To develop and test two applications of the Carbon Value Exchange (CaVex) platform to use carbon finance to unlock additional financing solutions. |
| SunCulture | FY2023 | £637k | For piloting the project of testing carbon credits as a tool to substantially reduce end customer price. |
| Pash Advisory LLP | FY2023 | £637k | To scale the availability of EV charging infrastructure through strategic partnerships in West Africa |
| Precise Consulting (Ethiopia Accelerator) | FY2023 | £598k | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities. |
| UOMA (Open Capital Advisors - Uganda Market Accelerator) | FY2023 | £592k | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities. |
| Roving Heights - NoMAP (Nigeria Off-Grid Market Accelerator) | FY2023 | £592k | To strategically transition Market Institutions (MIs) and provide initial seed capital for the MI Facilities. |
| Equatorial Power | FY2023 | £551k | For supporting the demand stimulation efforts to achieve positive EBITDA on Lolwe site. |
| Mirova SunFunder Inc | FY2023 | £382k | To invest in the Junior Catalytic Tranche of a $500 million Energy Debt Fund focused on emerging markets, supporting its investment strategy relating to EV transition. |
| Ampersand Rwanda Ltd | FY2023 | £344k | To develop a new generation battery pack with an enhanced safety programme, scale Ampersand Academy to provide professional vocational training, and work towards SSA’s first e-mobility carbon credit transaction together with South Pole Group. |
| 4R Digital Limited | FY2022 | £1.5m | Supporting 4R Digital for the creation of the Carbon Value Exchange (CavEx), an innovative digital platform aimed to open access to global carbon financing markets as potential new revenue source to a wide range of micro and small-scale contributors of climate positive projects. |
| M-KOPA Holdings Limited | FY2022 | £1.3m | Supporting M-KOPA to demonstrate commercial viability of an e-mobility business model aimed to make e-motorcycles more affordable and reliable through PAYG technology. |
| SIMA (Social Investment Managers and Advisers LLC) | FY2022 | £1.2m | For supporting the project “Pilot of SIMA - Angaza DFF” to demonstrate a low cost data led approach to financing solar distributors that have poor access to finance. |
| Aceleron Limited | FY2022 | £1.2m | To explore the application of its circular economy technology within a containerised/ readily deployable format, feasibility testing of second life battery packs in larger standalone productive use and mini-grid settings. |
| Havenhill Synergy Limited | FY2022 | £1.2m | Supporting Havenhill to demonstrate a scale-up mini-grid model, with rapidly deploying sites, providing power to farmers, microenterprises and households |
| Jaza Energy Inc | FY2022 | £968k | For supporting the project “Accelerating Access to Energy for Low-Income Consumers in Rural Tanzania |
| Positive Capital Partners Limited | FY2022 | £968k | Support creation of the D-REC commercial market intermediary |
| Open Capital Group Limited | FY2022 | £908k | For the project “Kampala Integrated Transport Demonstration” to improve accessibility of mobility services for low-income consumers and to support deployment of GEAPP funding in Uganda. |
| EA Fruits and Farm Company Ltd | FY2022 | £787k | For supporting the project “Learning grant – Building the business case for off grid solar solutions” |
| Pula Advisors AG | FY2022 | £726k | Grant funding to demonstrate the feasibility of providing income protection to maintain access to energy for rural populations by reducing SHS PAYGO default rates |
| KOFA Holdings Limited | FY2022 | £702k | Grant funding to demonstrate the viability and impact of their decentralised energy storage platform in West Africa. |
| Raino Tech4Impact Ltd | FY2022 | £632k | Grant funding to demonstrate increased access to energy for fish farmers through cold storage |
| adOpes Limited | FY2022 | £605k | To provide asset financing to rural farmers through SACCOS and MFIs and make the financial product more accessible for women and low-income borrowers |
| Precise Consult International PLC/Precise Consult International LLC | FY2022 | £605k | Aims to catalyse the creation of a local manufacturing market for SHS/SAS and PUE to reduce the time taken to meet the energy needs of low-income off-grid households in Ethiopia |
| Odyssey Energy Solutions Inc | FY2022 | £605k | For supporting the project “Financing solution to scale Energy as-a-Service model for Health Facility Electrification” |
| Factor[e] Ventures PBC | FY2022 | £605k | For Supporting the project “Outsourced Incubation and Equator Fund Social Investment” |
| WhereIsMyTransport | FY2022 | £588k | Grant funding to demonstrate automated real-time alerts in Kampala for scale in emerging market cities |
| Easy Matatu Limited | FY2022 | £545k | Funding to scale a model to provide more reliable, safer, and cleaner shared transport to low and middle-income commuters in Uganda. |
| Roving Heights Nigeria Ltd | FY2022 | £406k | Grant funding to support activities aligned with SF market accelerator work and GEA’s mandate in Nigeria |
| Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) | FY2022 | £363k | To provide direct funding and support to up to 10 National renewable energy associations as pre-funding under the planned MI Facility. |
| Iraq Business Support Facility Trust | FY2021 | £2.8m | Provide business support for the Nomou Iraq Fund and Northern Iraq Investments. |
| SIMA (Social Investment Managers and Advisers LLC) | FY2021 | £2.0m | Supporting SIMA to make an investment into the Energy Access Relief Fund, which will fund enterprises through the challenges of Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Odyssey Energy Solutions Inc | FY2021 | £1.6m | Support Odyssey to develop a comprehensive asset management platform. Continued support to develop a ‘Powering-Health-Platform’ to rapidly electrify high-priority health clinics in the off-grid/weak-grid regions in Nigeria and Kenya. |
| Buen Manejo del Campo, SA | FY2021 | £1.3m | Accelerating the environmental and economic impact of biogas digesters for smallholder farmers in emerging markets. |
| Rabo Foundation | FY2021 | £1.2m | Catalyse the provision of $55 million of debt to support the agricultural value chain in India as a response to Covid-19 related financial impacts. |
| Jaza Energy Inc | FY2021 | £946k | Roll out new operational model for Jaza hubs to provide house- hold electrical appliances in rural Tanzania. |
| Equatorial Power B.V. | FY2021 | £856k | Continued support to finalise the project financing to build twenty five mini-grids serving businesses and communities in Uganda. |
| Science for Society Techno | FY2021 | £820k | Scaling up S4S’s decentralised processing model by improving transparency, efficiency, and quality and Covid-19 relief funding. |
| World Resources Institute | FY2021 | £811k | To implement a one-city (Hyderabad) demonstration of integration between private enterprises and public transport agencies to improve accessibility to mass transit using e-mobility. |
| The Sure Chill Company Ltd | FY2021 | £795k | To help expand its domestic off-grid refrigerator reach to low-income customers in Africa. |
| Globology Limited | FY2021 | £791k | To strengthen HSSE culture, scale-up commuter services and transition to clean technology ferries on Lake Victoria |
| Villgro Innovations Foundation | FY2021 | £708k | Support the scale-up of the ‘Productive use of Energy’ sector in India in a gender-inclusive way. |
| Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) | FY2021 | £675k | Supporting SEforALL to lead an energy “Access Accelerator Programme” as part of the SF strategy for a One Country approach to reaching universal energy access in Rwanda. |
| Future Fit Foundation | FY2021 | £675k | To support sector adoption and create a sustainable business for Future Fit’s Impact Benchmarking Tool (IBT). |
| Savant Group Limited | FY2021 | £675k | Scaling solar irrigation and access to finance solutions for smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa. |
| Venture Builder Foundation | FY2021 | £642k | Grant funding to continue testing a lower-cost approach to replicating the PAYG model in frontier markets. |
| Even Livelihoods Private Limited | FY2021 | £567k | Scale up of gender inclusion in mobility for low income population in India. |
| Hosa Solutions Private Limited | FY2021 | £501k | To scale-up rural logistics services in India increasing access to essential goods and services. |
| Pula Advisors GmbH | FY2021 | £466k | Increase insurance for farmers and derisk renewable energy plants. |
| Burn Manufacturing Company | FY2021 | £405k | Incubation of Electric Pressure Cooker business in order to reduce indoor air pollution and the associated negative health effects. |