THE SAID FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1125521 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£5.0m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

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extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications for 2027/28 Saïd Foundation scholarships will open on Tuesday 1 st September and close on Friday 30 th October.
Deadlines: Applications for 2027/28 Saïd Foundation scholarships will open on Tuesday 1 st September and close on Friday 30 th October.

Summarised from www.saidfoundation.org · saidfoundation.org/apply · saidfoundation.org/apply/ on 14/08/2026. 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

Economic/community Development/employment (4 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Education/training (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Burundi (1 grantee)
Cameroon (1 grantee)
Central African Republic (1 grantee)
Colombia (1 grantee)
Chad (1 grantee)
Congo (Democratic Republic) (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Sa'id Business School Foundation	FY2024	£11.4m	Strategic Development Fund and Oxford Sa'id Future Leaders Scholarships
The King's Foundation	FY2024	£4.0m	General work of The King's Foundation
Sa'id Research Initiative on Age-related Macular Degeneration	FY2024	£2.0m	Medical research
Scholarship Programme Recipients	FY2024	£1.2m	Financial support for students from the Levant region
UNHCR	FY2024	£781k	Support of refugees in Lebanon
Turquoise Mountain (Palestine)	FY2024	£609k	Preserving Palestinian Craft Heritage
The Rhodes Trust	FY2024	£250k	Redevelopment of Rhodes House
University College London	FY2023	£3.0m	Saïd Research Initiative
Saïd Business School Foundation	FY2023	£1.3m	Strategic Development Fund
Turquoise Mountain	FY2023	£1.2m	Preserving Palestinian Craft Heritage
Scholarship Programme	FY2023	£982k	Scholarships
Amal	FY2023	£257k	Humanitarian Programme
Chance to Change Foundation	FY2023	£50k	Care, resettlement and rehabilitation of offenders
The Prince’s Trust	FY2023	£10k	Vocational training
Homerton College	FY2023	£2k	Homerton Changemakers project
International Rescue Committee	FY2022	£1.3m	Humanitarian Programme (Lebanon)
Scholarship Programme	FY2022	£1.3m	Scholarships Programme
Saïd Business School Foundation	FY2022	£1.2m	Strategic Development Fund
Breaking Barriers	FY2022	£10k	Humanitarian Programme (UK)

About this data

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