OUTSET - CONTEMPORARY ART FUND — grant history

Registered charity 1101476 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£490k

Grants listed (FY2022)

Listed grants total

£870k

Accounts grants total

£574k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2022 accounts

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 (5 grantees)
Education/training (4 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
Lambeth (1 grantee)
Oxfordshire (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
African Artists' Foundation	FY2022	£150k	Dig Where You Stand - From Coast to Coast
Performa	FY2022	£150k	Partners grants
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
Fondazione ICA Milano	FY2022	£25k	Rebecca Moccia's Ministry of Loneliness
AT The Bus	FY2022	£25k	Art as therapy, on a double decker bus
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
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
Studio Voltaire	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Beit Ha'Gefen	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
The Whitworth & Van Abbemuseum	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Cristea Roberts Gallery	FY2022	£15k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
National Portrait	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Liverpool Biennale	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Matt's Gallery	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Powerplant Contemporary	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Centre Pompidou	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Green Papaya Art Projects	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company	FY2022	£10k	Other grants to institutions less than £10,000
International Curators Forum	FY2022	£10k	Partners grants
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
Green Papa a Art Projects, Manila, Philippines	FY2021	£25k	Shri Visha as
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France	FY2021	£25k	Graphic Cultures of Dissent
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
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
Li e ool Biennial	FY2021	£5k
32 Deg ee Ea	FY2021	£5k
Vic o ia and Albe M	FY2021	£3k

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 869769 vs reference 574180 (51.5% 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.