THE ONE FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£3.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2.7m

Accounts grants total

£2.7m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The One Foundation is partner led and actively listens to partners, supporting them with flexible funding. It does not state that it accepts unsolicited applications; rather, it partners with long-standing, purpose-driven organisations.

Summarised from theonefoundation.org.uk on 13/08/2026. 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 (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Brazil (1 grantee)
Cameroon (1 grantee)
Cardiff (1 grantee)
Guinea (1 grantee)
Kenya (1 grantee)
Malawi (1 grantee)
Mozambique (1 grantee)
Nigeria (1 grantee)
The Gambia (1 grantee)

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.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Baseflow	—	£102k
new	Freshlife	—	£100k
up	United Purpose/Self Help Africa	£274k	£478k
not listed	Concern Worldwide	£150k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2025	£650k	WASH programmes in Kenya
Water for People	FY2025	£600k	WASH programmes in Rwanda
United Purpose/Self Help Africa	FY2025	£478k	WASH programmes in Malawi
Safe Water Network	FY2025	£382k	WASH programmes in Ghana
Oxfam	FY2025	£250k	Humanitarian emergencies in DRC and South Sudan
Fisherman's Rest Outreach Malawi	FY2025	£150k	WASH programmes in Malawi
Baseflow	FY2025	£102k	WASH programmes in Malawi
Freshlife	FY2025	£100k	WASH programmes in Kenya
Water for People	FY2024	£645k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2024	£600k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Safe Water Network	FY2024	£300k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
United Purpose/Self Help Africa	FY2024	£274k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Oxfam	FY2024	£200k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Fisherman's Rest Outreach Malawi	FY2024	£150k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Concern Worldwide	FY2024	£150k	Charitable activities for water and sanitation projects
Water for People	FY2023	£670k	Charitable activities
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2023	£473k	Charitable activities
United Purpose / Self Help Africa	FY2023	£457k	Charitable activities
Safe Water Network	FY2023	£300k	Charitable activities
Oxfam	FY2023	£250k	Charitable activities
Concern Worldwide	FY2023	£150k	Charitable activities
Fisherman's Rest Outreach Malawi	FY2023	£125k	Charitable activities
Water for People	FY2022	£640k
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2022	£560k
United Purpose	FY2022	£330k
Safe Water Network	FY2022	£250k
Care International	FY2022	£120k
Fisherman's Rest Outreach Malawi	FY2022	£120k
Oxfam	FY2022	£100k
The Amar Charitable Family Trust	FY2022	£3k
Sanitation and Water Action	FY2022	£3k
Water for People	FY2021	£320k	Charitable activities
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2021	£310k	Charitable activities
United Purpose	FY2021	£237k	Charitable activities
Safe Water Network	FY2021	£200k	Charitable activities
Care International	FY2021	£120k	Charitable activities
Fisherman's Rest Outreach Malawi	FY2021	£112k	Charitable activities
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor	FY2021	£37k	Restricted funds (Malawi programme)

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 2711270 vs reference 2718269 (0.3% 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.