THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income
£574k
Grants listed (FY2025)
27
Listed grants total
£713k
Accounts grants total
£713k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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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 (15 grantees)
  • Scotland (8 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (6 grantees)
  • Throughout England (6 grantees)
  • Uganda (3 grantees)
  • Barbados (2 grantees)
  • Indonesia (2 grantees)
  • Ireland (2 grantees)
  • Australia (2 grantees)
  • Honduras (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
newSTREET CHILD—£30k
newPrimary Robins—£30k
newManchester Metropolitan University—£26k
newFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL—£25k
newWhitely Fund for Nature—£25k
newRoyal Ballet Schou—£25k
newMarine Conservation—£25k
newGo Live Theatre Projects—£25k
upVictoria and Albert Museum£30k£125k
upENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET£25k£74k
upInto University£10k£40k
upSpringboard Foundation£3k£30k
downChance to Shine£74k£25k
upUNICORN THEATRE LTD£5k£16k
not listedTHE SOIL ASSOCIATION LIMITED£250k—
not listedUK Music Masters Ltd.£250k—
not listedRoyal National Theatre - NT Connections, News Views and Let's Play programmes£125k—
not listedYOUNG ENTERPRISE£125k—
not listedTHE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL£50k—
not listedFIRST GIVE£40k—
not listedCaterham Primary Maths programme£30k—
not listedQUENTIN BLAKE CENTRE FOR ILLUSTRATION£30k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2025£125k
English National BalletFY2025£74k
Into UniversityFY2025£40k
Street ChildFY2025£30k
Primary RobinsFY2025£30k
Springboard FoundationFY2025£30k
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityFY2025£26k
Chance to ShineFY2025£25k
Fauna & FloraFY2025£25k
Whitely Fund for NatureFY2025£25k
SchoolreadersFY2025£25k
Royal Ballet SchouFY2025£25k
Marine ConservationFY2025£25k
Go Live Theatre ProjectsFY2025£25k
Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewFY2025£25k
RHS Garden WisleyFY2025£25k
London Children's BalletFY2025£24k
Royal Northern College of MusicFY2025£20k
Chefs in SchoolsFY2025£20k
Unicorn TheatreFY2025£16k
Bush Theatre CompanyFY2025£15k
Wave ProjectFY2025£10k
Royal Academy of DanceFY2025£10k
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith LimitedFY2025£5k
Young Organ Scholars’ TrustFY2025£5k
Surf CerritoFY2025£5k
Somerset House TrustFY2025£3k
Soil AssociationFY2024£250k
Music MastersFY2024£250k
Royal National Theatre - NT Connections, News Views and Let's Play programmesFY2024£125k
Young EnterpriseFY2024£125k
Chance to ShineFY2024£74k
Royal Ballet SchoolFY2024£50k
First GiveFY2024£40k
Caterham Primary Maths programmeFY2024£30k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2024£30k
Quentin Blake Centre for IllustrationFY2024£30k
Children Today Charitable TrustFY2024£26k
Footbal Beyond BordersFY2024£25k
Royal Shakespeare CompanyFY2024£25k
English National BalletFY2024£25k
Community Foundation for SurreyFY2024£25k
Kent Academies NetworkFY2024£25k
SchoolreadersFY2024£20k
Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewFY2024£18k
Bush Theatre CompanyFY2024£15k
Primary RobbinsFY2024£12k
EnvisionFY2024£10k
Royal Academy of DanceFY2024£10k
World Heart Beat Music AcademyFY2024£10k
Into UniversityFY2024£10k
Rugby Football FoundationFY2024£5k
Headlong Theatre Limited .FY2024£5k
Unicorn TheatreFY2024£5k
Untold Creative TrainingFY2024£5k
Springboard FoundationFY2024£3k
Let's PlayFY2023£250k
Royal National Theatre - NT Connections, News Views and programmesFY2023£125k
Into UniversityFY2023£125k
Chance to ShineFY2023£40k
Build Atrica/StreetchildFY2023£25k
National Deaf Children's SocietyFY2023£25k
First GiveFY2023£25k
World Heart Beat Music AcademyFY2023£25k
Wave ProjectFY2023£22k
Primary RobbinsFY2023£22k
Eastside Young Leaders AcademyFY2023£20k
Kent Academies NetworkFY2023£18k
Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewFY2023£15k
Music MastersFY2023£13k
SchoolreadersFY2023£13k
Sporting WayFY2023£11k
Springboard FoundationFY2023£11k
Bush Theatre CompanyFY2023£10k
Untold Creative TrainingFY2023£10k
Young MindsFY2023£10k
Rugby Football FoundationFY2023£10k
English National BalletFY2023£10k
EnvisionFY2023£10k
London Children's BalletFY2023£5k
Caterham Primary Maths programmeFY2023£5k
Royal Ballet SchoolFY2023£4k
Royal Shakespeare CompanyFY2023£3k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2023£1k
Royal National Theatre - NT ConnectionsFY2022£250k
Small grants $1,000 and less - 3 (2021: Nil)FY2022£125k
Community Foundation for SurreyFY2022£91k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2022£40k
Springboard FoundationFY2022£34k
RHS Garden WisleyFY2022£30k
Kent Academies NetworkFY2022£24k
Primary RobbinsFY2022£22k
EnvisionFY2022£22k
Build Atrica/StreetchildFY2022£20k
Rugby Football FoundationFY2022£20k
First GiveFY2022£20k
National Deaf Children's SocietyFY2022£15k
Young MindsFY2022£14k
London Children's BalletFY2022£13k
Royal Ballet SchoolFY2022£11k
Chance to ShineFY2022£10k
SchoolreadersFY2022£10k
Music MastersFY2022£8k
Sporting WayFY2022£5k
Soil AssociationFY2022£4k
Eastside Young Leaders AcademyFY2022£2k
Wave ProjectFY2022£1k
SeaviewFY2022£1k
Into UniversityFY2022£1k

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 712720 vs reference 712720 (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.