THE FOYLE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income
£405k
Grants listed (FY2025)
44
Listed grants total
£16.2m
Accounts grants total
£21.9m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 0 of 44 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (0%), and 0 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 11.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.foylefoundation.org.uk · foylefoundation.org.uk/home/legacygrants/ · foylefoundation.org.uk/past-grants/ on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

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
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (14 grantees)
  • Throughout London (6 grantees)
  • Throughout England (4 grantees)
  • Scotland (4 grantees)
  • Surrey (3 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
  • Lambeth (3 grantees)
  • Bristol City (2 grantees)
  • Brighton And Hove (2 grantees)
  • Hampshire (2 grantees)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA—£1.5m
newThe National Gallery—£1.0m
newBritish Library—£1.0m
newThe Royal Shakespeare Company—£1.0m
newBritten Pears Arts—£500k
newHorniman Public Museum and Public—£250k
newCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside—£200k
newCHISWICK HOUSE AND GARDENS TRUST—£200k
upTHE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST£650k£1.2m
upSADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED£200k£900k
upTHE POETRY SOCIETY£75k£575k
upCourtauld Institute of Art£100k£200k
upEarls Court Youth Clubs£10k£50k
not listedRoyal Welsh College of Music£500k—
not listedQUENTIN BLAKE CENTRE FOR ILLUSTRATION£200k—
not listedTHE ARVON FOUNDATION£150k—
not listedTHE ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY£150k—
not listedHALLE CONCERTS SOCIETY£150k—
not listedTHE GARWOOD FOUNDATION£150k—
not listedTHE GUILDHALL SCHOOL TRUST£100k—
not listedLONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE (THE PLACE) LIMITED£100k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaFY2025£1.5m
The National Literacy TrustFY2025£1.2m
The National GalleryFY2025£1.0m
British LibraryFY2025£1.0m
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2025£1.0m
The Royal Shakespeare CompanyFY2025£1.0m
North Music TrustFY2025£1.0m
Sadler's Wells Trust LtdFY2025£900k
Edinburgh Festival Fringe SocietyFY2025£600k
Royal National TheatreFY2025£600k
The Poetry SocietyFY2025£575k
Ulster Orchestra Society LtdFY2025£500k
Britten Pears ArtsFY2025£500k
National Art Collections FundFY2025£398k
Horniman Public Museum and PublicFY2025£250k
Community Foundations for Lancashire & MerseysideFY2025£200k
Chiswick House and Gardens TrustFY2025£200k
Community Foundation for Northern IrelandFY2025£200k
Community Foundation WalesFY2025£200k
Cornwall Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Courtauld Institute of ArtFY2025£200k
Foundation ScotlandFY2025£200k
Heart of England Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Lincolnshire Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Nottinghamshire Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Point North Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Sussex Community FoundationFY2025£200k
Two Ridings Community FoundationFY2025£200k
The Yard TheatreFY2025£150k
The Gurkha Museum TrustFY2025£150k
Strand Arts CentreFY2025£150k
World Monuments Fund BritainFY2025£119k
Pioneer Theatres LimitedFY2025£100k
The Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000FY2025£100k
Chichester Festival TheatreFY2025£100k
Gateway Studio CIOFY2025£100k
Corn Exchange (Newbury) TrustFY2025£100k
The Grange FestivalFY2025£98k
London Philharmonic OrchestraFY2025£85k
The Strawberry Hill TrustFY2025£76k
Glencoe Folk MuseumFY2025£75k
The Mayor of London's Fund for Young MusiciansFY2025£75k
Watts Gallery TrustFY2025£75k
Earls Court Youth ClubsFY2025£50k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2024£1.0m
North Music TrustFY2024£1.0m
Royal National TheatreFY2024£1.0m
The National Literacy TrustFY2024£650k
Ulster Orchestra Society LtdFY2024£500k
Edinburgh Festival Fringe SocietyFY2024£500k
Royal Welsh College of MusicFY2024£500k
National Art Collections FundFY2024£400k
Sadler's Wells Trust LtdFY2024£200k
Quentin Blake Centre for IllustrationFY2024£200k
The Arvon FoundationFY2024£150k
The Royal Liverpool PhilharmonicFY2024£150k
Halle Concerts SocietyFY2024£150k
The Garwood FoundationFY2024£150k
The Guildhall School TrustFY2024£100k
Courtauld Institute of ArtFY2024£100k
The Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000FY2024£100k
Contemporary Dance Trust LimitedFY2024£100k
Trent Park Museum TrustFY2024£100k
Greater Manchester Arts CentreFY2024£100k
Whitechapel GalleryFY2024£100k
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre TrustFY2024£100k
Theatre503FY2024£75k
The Friends of the Ipswich MuseumsFY2024£75k
The Poetry SocietyFY2024£75k
Children's Discovery Centre - EastFY2024£75k
Earls Court Youth ClubsFY2024£10k
Royal National TheatreFY2023£1.5m
Earls Court Youth ClubsFY2023£1.5m
The National GalleryFY2023£1.0m
The Foundling MuseumFY2023£500k
Royal Opera House Covent Garden FoundationFY2023£250k
St Bartholomew's HeritageFY2023£200k
Capital TheatresFY2023£200k
Imperial War MuseumFY2023£150k
Cathedral Church of St PeterFY2023£150k
PACE Theatre CompanyFY2023£150k
RHCA Royal Hospital Chelsea AppealFY2023£140k
Pitlochry Festival TheatreFY2023£110k
The University of ManchesterFY2023£100k
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum TrustFY2023£100k
Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical SocietyFY2023£100k
KH Theatre LtdFY2023£85k
The Royal Shakespeare CompanyFY2023£78k
The Poetry SocietyFY2023£75k
The Queen's HallFY2023£75k
Royal College of MusicFY2023£75k
Liberdade Community Development TrustFY2023£75k
Anna Freud LondonFY2023£75k
SeamabFY2023£75k
Theatre Clwyd TrustFY2022£407k
Science Museum GroupFY2022£400k
Hull Maritime FoundationFY2022£250k
Historic Royal PalacesFY2022£250k
Shakespeare Globe TrustFY2022£200k
Birmingham RepertoryFY2022£150k
Bristol Music TrustFY2022£150k
The Warburg InstituteFY2022£150k
Lord Leycester's HospitalFY2022£100k
Watershed Arts TrustFY2022£100k
Leeds Theatre TrustFY2022£100k
Poetry SocietyFY2022£90k
Harmeny Education TrustFY2022£75k
Cockpit ArtsFY2022£75k
Sadlers Wells TrustFY2022£75k
The Handel HouseFY2022£75k
Earls Court Youth ClubsFY2022£10k

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 16201000 vs reference 21878300 (25.9% 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.