OUTSET - CONTEMPORARY ART FUND — grant history

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Latest income

£328k

Grants listed (FY2025)

4 · 7 amount not stated

Listed grants total

£122k

Accounts grants total

£60k

Write-backs & cancellations (all years shown): 1 entry, −£65k. These are listed separately below and are not netted off the grant totals or counted as grants.

reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2022: 1 grant totalling £25k is listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (grantee names (or the pattern of amounts) not found in the accounts text).

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Outset is a responsive partner and is driven by the needs of the organisations we fund. Our funding is always curator- and institution-led, ensuring that support is guided by expertise and embedded knowledge.

Summarised from www.outset.org.uk 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

Arts/culture/heritage/science (8 grantees)
Education/training (7 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
Lambeth (1 grantee)
Oxfordshire (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Camden (1 grantee)
Tower Hamlets (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Gallery 1957 London	—	£25k
up	Government Art Collection	£50k	£75k
down	Lassonde Art Trail Foundation	£65k	£21k
down	ART HISTORY LINK-UP	£20k	£1k
not listed	Albertinum	£65k	—
not listed	AWARE	£20k	—
not listed	Kunsthaus Bregenz	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Government Art Collection	FY2025	£75k	Grant payable
Gallery 1957 London	FY2025	£25k	Grant payable
Lassonde Art Trail Foundation	FY2025	£21k	Grant payable
Art History Link Up	FY2025	£1k	Grant payable
Kunsthaus Bregenz	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
Albertinum	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
AWARE	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
DEO Project	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
Albertinum	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
African Artists' Foundation	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable (reallocated)
Other grants to institutions less than £10,000	FY2025	amount not stated	Grant payable
Lassonde Art Trail Foundation	FY2024	£65k	Funding towards Deep Site a project exploring the ecosystem, microhabitats, biomimicry and sustainable future of a complex site
Albertinum	FY2024	£65k	Supporting a two-year research project to reconsider the museum's curatorial vision in response to right-wing populism
Government Art Collection	FY2024	£50k	The Robson Orr TenTen Award
AWARE	FY2024	£20k	Supporting AMIS, a project that supports the visibility and inclusion of women and non-binary artists within visual art narratives
Art History Link-Up	FY2024	£20k	Project giving state school students the opportunity to study Art History and gain an accredited qualification free-of-charge
Kunsthaus Bregenz	FY2024	£10k	Funding towards a major solo exhibition of new and existing work by Polish-Romani artist and activist Malgorzata Mirgas-Tas
African Artists Foundation	FY2023	£150k	Dig Where You Stand - From Coast to Coast
Performa	FY2023	£150k
Stellenbosch Triennale	FY2023	£110k	Stellenbosch Triennale
Drawing Room	FY2023	£55k
Farsight Corporation	FY2023	£50k
Government Art Collection	FY2023	£50k	TenTen Award / Donations
National Portrait Gallery	FY2023	£30k	Commission
Other grants to institutions less than £10,000	FY2023	£26k
Vortic	FY2023	£26k
Forma Arts & Media	FY2023	£25k	Oliver Chanarin: A Perfect Sentence
Locus Athens	FY2023	£25k	Revolution is not a one-time event
Arebyte	FY2023	£25k	arebyte Plugin
Art Gallery of York University	FY2023	£25k	At the Transit Bar
AT The Bus	FY2023	£25k	AT The Bus
Fondazione ICA Milano	FY2023	£25k	Rebecca Moccia: Ministry of Loneliness
LACMA	FY2023	£25k	The Past in Front of Us: Imagining Black Diasporas in the 21st Century
STORE	FY2023	£25k	STORE STORE Build
Yinka Shonibare Foundation (G.A.S)	FY2023	£25k	Re:assemblages
International Curators Forum	FY2023	£25k
Artists in Residence	FY2023	£25k
Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company	FY2023	£25k
Green Papaya Art Projects	FY2023	£25k
Centre Pompidou	FY2023	£25k
The Redfern Gallery	FY2023	£21k	Donation of artwork
National Portrait	FY2023	£20k
Matt's Gallery	FY2023	£17k
Cristea Roberts Gallery	FY2023	£15k
Ed Cross Fine Art	FY2023	£14k	Donation of artwork
Vardaxoglou Gallery	FY2023	£11k	Donation of artwork
Studio Voltaire	FY2023	£10k
MYANM/ART	FY2023	£10k
Performa	FY2022	£150k	Partners grants
African Artists' Foundation	FY2022	£150k	Dig Where You Stand - From Coast to Coast
International Curators Forum	FY2022	£60k	Partners grants
Government Art Collection	FY2022	£60k	Partners grants
National Portrait Gallery	FY2022	£50k	Partners grants
Artists in Residence	FY2022	£38k	Partners grants
Government Art Collection	FY2022	£28k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Locus Athens	FY2022	£25k	Revolution is not a one time event
Forma	FY2022	£25k	Oliver Frank Chanarin's A Perfect Sentence
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)	FY2022	£25k	Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics
Fondazione ICA Milano	FY2022	£25k	Rebecca Moccia's Ministry of Loneliness
AT The Bus	FY2022	Unverified read£25k	Art as therapy, on a double decker bus
Goodman Gallery	FY2022	£23k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Serpentine Trust	FY2022	£20k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh	FY2022	£16k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
The Whitworth & Van Abbemuseum	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Beit Ha'Gefen	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Studio Voltaire	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Cristea Roberts Gallery	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
International Curators Forum	FY2022	£10k	Partners grants
Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Green Papaya Art Projects	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Centre Pompidou	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
National Portrait	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Powerplant Contemporary	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Matt's Gallery	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Liverpool Biennale	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Performa, Ne York Cit , Ne York	FY2021	£150k	Living Archives
Ro al Bo anic Ga den Edinb gh	FY2021	£60k
Se en ine T	FY2021	£60k
Go e nmen A Collec ion	FY2021	£50k
S dio Vol ai e	FY2021	£40k	The Anthea Hamilton Garden
Goodman Galle	FY2021	£38k
Artists in Residence, London and Regional Locations, United Kingdom	FY2021	£25k	AiR School Residenc Programme
Bold Tendencies, London, United Kingdom	FY2021	£25k	The Remastering Project
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France	FY2021	£25k	Graphic Cultures of Dissent
Green Papa a Art Projects, Manila, Philippines	FY2021	£25k	Shri Visha as
The International Curators Forum, International	FY2021	£25k	Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022
The Whi o h	FY2021	£20k
Pa ne	FY2021	£16k
O he g an	FY2021	£13k
A On The Unde g o nd	FY2021	£10k
32 Deg ee Ea	FY2021	£5k
Li e ool Biennial	FY2021	£5k
Vic o ia and Albe M	FY2021	£3k

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

Write-backs & cancellations

1 entry totalling −£65k in this funder’s accounts are negative amounts, such as the write-back of an accrued grant or a cancelled grant. They are shown here on their own and are not netted off the grants total or counted as grants above. They are in the CSV with amount_note “write_back”.

Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Funds to be reallocated	FY2025	−£65k	Grant payable (reallocated)

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].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.