THE COSTA FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.9m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£1.5m

Accounts grants total

£1.8m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

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

FAWfilling Futures – Five Acre Wood School “Through the support of the Costa Foundation, alongside the generous contributions of JEM Construction, Hobart, Synecore,”

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 (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
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)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Benin (1 grantee)
Bolivia (1 grantee)
Brazil (1 grantee)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)
Cambodia (1 grantee)
Cameroon (1 grantee)
Central African Republic (1 grantee)
China (1 grantee)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	Imagine1Day	—	£295k
new	ACOM Vietnam	—	£210k
new	PLAN INTERNATIONAL UK	—	£180k
new	Seeds for Progress	—	£98k
new	PEAS	—	£82k
new	Carcafe	—	£68k
not listed	Fundación Nicafrance	£239k	—
not listed	Fundación Carcafe	£220k	—
not listed	Plan International	£186k	—
not listed	PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	£88k	—
not listed	Imagine 1 day	£55k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Imagine1Day	FY2024	£295k	Chekata Secondary School
ACOM Vietnam	FY2024	£210k	La Petnursery school, Dak Doa District, Gia Lai Province
Imagine1Day	FY2024	£180k	Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL)
Plan International UK	FY2024	£180k	Building a better future for Honduras
Plan International UK	FY2024	£180k	A brilliant future for Guatemala’s rural children in coffee growing communities
Seeds for Progress	FY2024	£98k	Conversion of rural government school in El Zapotal, Esquipulas, Chiquimula
PEAS	FY2024	£82k	Cycling for Success
PEAS	FY2024	£69k	Building a safe, holistic learning environment — PEAS Aspire Secondary School
Carcafe	FY2024	£68k	El Remolino School perimeter fence, Taminango, Narino
Seeds for Progress	FY2024	£43k	Rural education and child labour prevention programme, El Zapotal, Esquipulas, Chiquimula
PEAS	FY2024	£20k	Sanitation upgrades PEAS Noble Secondary School, Ibanda District, Western Uganda
PEAS	FY2024	£20k	Sanitation upgrades at PEAS Aspire, Ibanda District, Western Uganda
Imagine1Day	FY2024	£11k	Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting & Learning & technical support
PEAS	FY2024	£11k	Building a safe, holistic learning environment — PEAS Hibiscus Secondary School
PEAS	FY2024	£11k	Building a safe, holistic learning environment — PEAS Pioneer Secondary School
PEAS	FY2024	£11k	Building a safe, holistic learning environment — PEAS Kabuta Secondary School
Imagine1Day	FY2024	£4k	Computer labs at Arda Qalu Secondary School
Fundación Nicafrance	FY2023	£239k	14 de Julio Construction of 8 classrooms, including one for pre-school, for 311 students - kindergarten, primary and secondary, a staff room, a kitchen-dining area, equipped with school furniture, enlarged playground and perimeter fence.
Fundación Carcafe	FY2023	£220k	San Carlos Construction of 8 new classrooms for IEA School, 200 students, restrooms for boys and girls (10 toilets and 10 wash basin units), septic tank for 200 people, water and electricity supply, garden landscaping and accessing road to the new school block.
Plan International	FY2023	£186k	3 school Project in 3 schools to improve school infrastructure and water and sanitation facilities, plus training of student, teachers and parents to support access to education.
Plan International	FY2023	£157k	Building a better future - Project in 2 schools to improve school infrastructure, water and sanitation facilities, plus training of student, teachers and parents to support access to education.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	FY2023	£88k	Dormitory sanitation block, classroom and fence at Kampinda High School, Northern Province. Construction of 3 room classroom block adding 180 new learning spaces for the school community, sanitation block for boarding accommodation and wall fence to add security for the school.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	FY2023	£81k	Dormitory block and classroom at Kabuta High School, Northern Province. Construction of 3 room classroom block adding 180 new learning spaces for the school community, boarding accommodation block, which has added 60 new boarding spaces.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	FY2023	£73k	Dormitory block, sanitary block, dormitory extension, lab upgrade at Bridge High School, Mitooma District. Extension of dormitory block to create 120 additional boarding spaces and dormitory sanitation block, upgrade of science laboratory and construction of a shallow well has given the 889 students access to safe water.
Imagine 1 day	FY2023	£55k	Educate a girl programme. Programme supporting 200 high performing female students from poor and disadvantaged households in rural Ethiopia in completing a full course of secondary school education (Grades 9-12) and in developing as future leaders of Ethiopia.
Plan International	FY2023	£39k	Alta Verapaz Food security response reaching 505 families, including 1,597 children. Targeting communities where the Costa Foundation has funded schools and school projects previously.
Imagine 1 day	FY2023	£36k	Water tank installation at Bekkaye Primary School, Bale Zone, Oromia. Construction includes 1 classroom, roof water catchment of 5,000 litres with 1 hand wash water point.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	FY2023	£34k	Mental health and wellbeing teacher training in 10 Costa Foundation funded PEAS schools. Programme to deliver psycho-social teacher training and training on the new curriculum at 10 Costa Foundation funded PEAS schools in response to an increase in need for psycho-social and pastoral care to be incorporated in PEAS teaching.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)	FY2023	£13k	Solar lighting at Bwesumbu High School, Kasese District. Installation of solar and hydropower connection for the school and boarding accommodation.
Imagine 1 day	FY2023	£6k	Water reservoir expansions x 2 at Adeyi Primary School, Bale Zone, Oromia. Construction includes 2 water tank (reservoirs) with a capacity of 25m3 and 5m3 constructed respectively. 5 water points, 1 spring.
Imagine 1 day	FY2023	£2k	Water reservoir expansion at Wote Primary School, Yirgacheffe region. Expansion of primary school water reservoir to ensure water supply.

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 1489783 vs reference 1769656 (15.8% 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.