THE VARKEY FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£4.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.2m

Accounts grants total

£1.1m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE KING'S TRUST GROUP COMPANY “The Varkey Foundation’s mission is to change lives through education. The Foundation’s support of our education programm”

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)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout London (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	Global Teacher Prize	—	£709k
new	Global Student Prize	—	£77k
new	We Are Family Foundation UK	—	£40k
new	Room to Read	—	£38k
up	Other Grants and Donations	£79k	£197k
up	UNESCO	£732	£31k
not listed	Global Teacher Prize Winners	£776k	—
not listed	Fundacion Varkey Argentina	£377k	—
not listed	Support costs	£31k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Global Teacher Prize	FY2025	£709k	Prize Money
Other Grants and Donations	FY2025	£197k	Grants
Clinton Global Initiative	FY2025	£79k	Grant
Global Student Prize	FY2025	£77k	Prize Money
We Are Family Foundation	FY2025	£40k	Grant
Room to Read	FY2025	£38k	Grant
UNESCO	FY2025	£31k	Grant
Global Teacher Prize Winners	FY2024	£776k	Prize Money
Fundacion Varkey Argentina	FY2024	£377k	Debt converted to grant
Other grants and donations	FY2024	£79k	Grant/Donation
Clinton Global Initiative	FY2024	£78k	Grant/Donation
Support costs	FY2024	£31k	Support Costs for Partnerships & Grant-making
UNESCO	FY2024	£732	Grant/Donation
Keishia Thorpe	FY2022	£765k	Global Teacher Prize
Rockefeller Advisors	FY2022	£100k	Rockefeller Strategic Advisors grant
Jeremiah Thoronka	FY2022	£72k	Global Student Prize

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 1171171 vs reference 1061254 (10.4% 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.