THE COSARAF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£457k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£763k

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Major Grants fund is by invitation only. The Foundation supports long-term projects with credible partners to deliver strategic objectives.

Summarised from www.cosaraf.org · www.cosaraf.org/what-we-do/empowering-women-girls/ · www.cosaraf.org/what-we-do/enabling-young-people/ on 16/08/2026. 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

Education/training (9 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (6 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (5 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Uganda (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
India (2 grantees)
Pakistan (2 grantees)
Ghana (2 grantees)
Throughout England (2 grantees)
Kenya (2 grantees)
Bangladesh (2 grantees)
Nigeria (2 grantees)
Tanzania (2 grantees)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2024

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	FY2022	FY2024
new	Gear Trust	—	£1.5m
new	University Scholarships	—	£1.1m
new	Humanitarian	—	£360k
new	Community Projects and Places of Worship	—	£139k
new	Shamakha Foundation	—	£90k
new	Mehran Welfare Trust	—	£55k
new	Fahmida Begum Foundation	—	£48k
new	Prince's Trust - Enterprise Fellowship	—	£41k
not listed	Individuals (Hardship Fund)	£82k	—
not listed	The Little Sisters for the Poor Home for the Aged	£3k	—
not listed	CITY HARVEST	£1k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Gear Trust	FY2024	£1.5m
University Scholarships	FY2024	£1.1m
Humanitarian	FY2024	£360k
Community Projects and Places of Worship	FY2024	£139k
Shamakha Foundation	FY2024	£90k
Mehran Welfare Trust	FY2024	£55k
Fahmida Begum Foundation	FY2024	£48k
Prince's Trust - Enterprise Fellowship	FY2024	£41k
The Naz Legacy Foundation	FY2024	£40k
Read Foundation	FY2024	£25k
Family Educational Services foundation	FY2024	£25k
SEED Ventures	FY2024	£25k
Home Start UK	FY2024	£20k
Deaf Reach	FY2024	£18k
Bright Futures	FY2024	£12k
Hatcliffe Extension Charitable Trust	FY2024	£12k
For the Needy & Hungry Foundation	FY2024	£10k
East Africa Character Development Trust	FY2024	£6k
African Gifted Foundation	FY2024	£5k
Carers Worldwide	FY2024	£5k
Prince's Trust International	FY2024	£5k
Victoria and Albert Museum	FY2024	£5k
St John’s School Northwood	FY2024	£2k
Individuals (Hardship Fund)	FY2022	£82k	Hardship grants to individuals in genuine financial need
The Little Sisters for the Poor Home for the Aged	FY2022	£3k	Grant towards medical fees for residents in Sri Lanka
City Harvest	FY2022	£1k	Donation towards fresh fruit and vegetables for weekly grocery packs during Ramadan
Shamakha Foundation	FY2022	amount not stated	Distribution of food packs in Kenya during Ramadan (amount not explicitly stated in text)
St Mungo’s	FY2022	amount not stated	To establish a loan library across three hostels (amount not explicitly stated in text)
London’s Community Kitchen, Harrow	FY2022	amount not stated	Donation towards fresh fruit and vegetables (amount not explicitly stated in text)
Carers Worldwide	FY2022	amount not stated	Grant towards the COVID India Emergency Appeal (amount not explicitly stated in text)
The British Asian Trust	FY2022	amount not stated	Funding for High-Flow Oxygen Concentrators for the India COVID-19 Crisis appeal (amount not explicitly stated in text)
Hertfordshire Community Foundation’s Children’s Fund	FY2022	amount not stated	To provide hardship support for local families (amount not explicitly stated in text)
Herts Welcomes Refugees	FY2022	amount not stated	To fund the school rental fees for an Arabic School (amount not explicitly stated in text)
Utrujj Foundation	FY2022	amount not stated	Grant towards curriculum development (amount not explicitly stated in text)
13 Rivers Trust	FY2022	amount not stated	Supporting funeral and burial costs for needy Muslim families (amount not explicitly stated in text)
The RAW (Refugees Asylum-Seeker Welcome) Project, London	FY2022	amount not stated	Supplied Suhoor and Iftar to refugees (amount not explicitly stated in text)
Harrow Weald Mosque	FY2022	amount not stated	Support to provide daily Iftar parcels (amount not explicitly stated in text, part of Ramadan support)
The Noor Project	FY2022	amount not stated	Rations provided during Ramadan (amount not explicitly stated in text, part of Ramadan support)
Join Hands Trust	FY2022	amount not stated	Grant to distribute food packages in India during Ramadan (amount not explicitly stated in text)

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

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 (no individually listed grants). 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].