THE TOLKIEN TRUST — grant history

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Latest income
£6.5m
Grants listed (FY2024)
104
Listed grants total
£6.0m
Accounts grants total
£6.0m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.tolkientrust.org on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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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
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (25 grantees)
  • Oxfordshire (11 grantees)
  • Kenya (9 grantees)
  • Scotland (8 grantees)
  • Tanzania (8 grantees)
  • Uganda (8 grantees)
  • Zimbabwe (7 grantees)
  • Sierra Leone (7 grantees)
  • Bangladesh (6 grantees)
  • Burma (6 grantees)

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.

ChangeGranteeFY2023FY2024
newUniversity of Oxford - Management of Tolkien Archives—£1.0m
newFREEDOM FROM TORTURE—£275k
newMMR Rescue (Ukraine)—£158k
newTHE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY—£120k
newTHE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CENTRE AT STONYHURST—£60k
newWELSH HOUSING AID LIMITED—£52k
newExtreme Medical Services (EMR)—£50k
newHelp Lesotho—£50k
upTHE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND£55k£250k
upTHE MANGO TREE ORPHAN SUPPORT PROGRAMME£50k£200k
upHoward League for Penal Reform£22k£200k
upMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (UK)£25k£138k
upMuseum of Oxford£10k£125k
upCHALLENGING MND£50k£120k
upREPRIEVE£17k£105k
upTREAT (Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade)£28k£105k
not listedLeeds Hospital Charity£200k—
not listedEMERGENCY-LIFE SUPPORT FOR CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF WAR AND POVERTY,UK£120k—
not listedCALMS£110k—
not listedUniversity of Manitoba£94k—
not listedDuke of Edinburgh Award£90k—
not listedDirect Relief£80k—
not listedHillside House£55k—
not listedBodleian Library£55k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
University of Oxford - Management of Tolkien ArchivesFY2024£1.0m
Freedom from TortureFY2024£275k
Save the Children FundFY2024£250k
Mango Tree Orphan Support ProgrammeFY2024£200k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2024£200k
MMR Rescue (Ukraine)FY2024£158k
Medecins Sans Frontieres UKFY2024£138k
One Acre FundFY2024£128k
Museum of OxfordFY2024£125k
ActionAidFY2024£125k
Challenging MNDFY2024£120k
British Red CrossFY2024£120k
ReprieveFY2024£105k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade)FY2024£105k
Hope Project LesvosFY2024£100k
Festival Medical ServicesFY2024£100k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2024£95k
Kent Refugee Action NetworkFY2024£93k
Centre Primo LeviFY2024£83k
Solidarites InternationalFY2024£80k
ShelterboxFY2024£80k
Ukrainian PatriotFY2024£80k
Cutteslowe Community AssociationFY2024£80k
Maison ShalomFY2024£70k
Age UKFY2024£70k
Alzheimer's Research UKFY2024£70k
Asylum WelcomeFY2024£60k
The Christian Heritage Centre at StonyhurstFY2024£60k
SchoolreadersFY2024£55k
Dyslexia Research TrustFY2024£55k
Road to RecoveryFY2024£53k
Shelter CymruFY2024£52k
Extreme Medical Services (EMR)FY2024£50k
Become CharityFY2024£50k
SOS Mediterranee FranceFY2024£50k
La CimadeFY2024£50k
Help LesothoFY2024£50k
Colorado State University FoundationFY2024£50k
Working Chance LimitedFY2024£44k
Greenpeace Enviromental TrustFY2024£40k
Settle SupportFY2024£40k
Creation TheatreFY2024£40k
Videre Est CredereFY2024£35k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2024£33k
Linda Norgrove FoundationFY2024£33k
Claremont McKenna CollegeFY2024£30k
University of Oxford Botanic Garden and ArboretumFY2024£30k
VNA Health FoundationFY2024£30k
Detention ActionFY2024£30k
Virtual DoctorsFY2024£30k
Doctors of the World UKFY2024£30k
Wilderness Youth ProjectFY2024£30k
AAPLE Academy FoundationFY2024£30k
Children on the EdgeFY2024£30k
Reading List FoundationFY2024£28k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2024£28k
SOS HumanityFY2024£28k
Arbor DayFY2024£25k
Medecins du Monde FranceFY2024£25k
Memorial de la ShoahFY2024£25k
Spark InsideFY2024£25k
Association IMADFY2024£22k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2024£22k
Southampton and Winchester Visitors GroupFY2024£22k
Birdlife InternationalFY2024£22k
Oxford Philharmonic OrchestraFY2024£20k
Camfed InternationalFY2024£20k
Theatres TrustFY2024£20k
The Turtle HospitalFY2024£20k
The Tablet TrustFY2024£20k
The PorchFY2024£20k
Work Rights CentreFY2024£20k
Glass Door Homeless CharityFY2024£20k
Skidmore CollegeFY2024£20k
Humanity & InclusionFY2024£20k
Be Free Young CarersFY2024£20k
Linkage Community Trust LtdFY2024£20k
Marie CurieFY2024£20k
Refugees at HomeFY2024£20k
RefuAid (Prism the Gift Fund)FY2024£20k
Oxford Bach ChoirFY2024£20k
Prisoners AbroadFY2024£20k
Oxford Food HubFY2024£20k
Prison Phoenix TrustFY2024£20k
Pilotes VolontairesFY2024£20k
Photography OxfordFY2024£20k
Pesticide Action Network UKFY2024£20k
Pembroke College Oxford, Tolkien Memorial SculptureFY2024£20k
Panzi FoundationFY2024£20k
Oxford Playhouse TrustFY2024£20k
Oxford Lieder LimitedFY2024£20k
Wiener Holocaust LibraryFY2024£17k
Duke of Edinburgh's AwardFY2024£15k
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care NetworkFY2024£15k
Collectif des Artistes Liriques et Musiciens pour la Solidarite (CALMS)FY2024£15k
ClientEarthFY2024£11k
Dragon School TrustFY2024£11k
RESQ ONLUSFY2024£11k
Aladdin ProjectFY2024£10k
Leeds Hospitals CharityFY2024£10k
University of SussexFY2024£10k
My Name'5 Doddie FoundationFY2024£10k
Blackfriars OxfordFY2024£10k
University of Oxford - reversal of Bodleian Archives grant supersededFY2024£-156k
Linda Norgrove FoundationFY2023£275k
ShelterboxFY2023£205k
Leeds Hospital CharityFY2023£200k
Oxford Food HubFY2023£158k
ClientEarthFY2023£155k
Oxford Philharmonic OrchestraFY2023£138k
Dyslexia Research TrustFY2023£128k
My Name'5 Doddie FoundationFY2023£125k
ActionAidFY2023£125k
Asylum WelcomeFY2023£124k
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care NetworkFY2023£122k
Emergency UKFY2023£120k
CALMSFY2023£110k
One Acre FundFY2023£110k
Theatres TrustFY2023£105k
Marie CurieFY2023£100k
University of ManitobaFY2023£94k
Pilotes VolontairesFY2023£94k
Maison ShalomFY2023£93k
Duke of Edinburgh AwardFY2023£90k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2023£85k
Direct ReliefFY2023£80k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2023£80k
Pesticide Action Network UKFY2023£80k
Settle SupportFY2023£77k
Age UKFY2023£70k
La CimadeFY2023£70k
Alzheimer's Research UKFY2023£70k
Hillside HouseFY2023£55k
Bodleian LibraryFY2023£55k
Save the Children FundFY2023£55k
VII FoundationFY2023£52k
Refugees at HomeFY2023£52k
SOS HumanityFY2023£50k
Claremont McKenna CollegeFY2023£50k
Challenging MNDFY2023£50k
Hope Project LesvosFY2023£50k
Mango Tree Orphan Support ProgrammeFY2023£50k
Become CharityFY2023£50k
Dragon School TrustFY2023£49k
Human Rights WatchFY2023£45k
Creation TheatreFY2023£45k
Wiener Holocaust LibraryFY2023£44k
Centre Primo LeviFY2023£44k
Sanctuary Hosting LimitedFY2023£44k
Oxford Playhouse TrustFY2023£44k
Colorado State University FoundationFY2023£40k
SchoolreadersFY2023£40k
Detention ActionFY2023£40k
Dominican CouncilFY2023£35k
Prisoners AbroadFY2023£35k
University of Oxford (Care for COVID-orphaned children)FY2023£35k
Medecins du MondeFY2023£33k
Humanity & InclusionFY2023£33k
Children on the EdgeFY2023£33k
AAPLE Academy FoundationFY2023£30k
Camfed InternationalFY2023£30k
Doctors of the World UKFY2023£30k
Exeter College OxfordFY2023£30k
Festival Medical ServicesFY2023£30k
Reading List FoundationFY2023£30k
RefuAid (Prism the Gift Fund)FY2023£30k
RESQ ONLUSFY2023£30k
University of SussexFY2023£30k
Videre Est CredereFY2023£30k
VNA Health FoundationFY2023£30k
Work Rights CenreFY2023£30k
Panzi FoundationFY2023£28k
Photography OxfordFY2023£28k
St Luke's OxfordFY2023£28k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade)FY2023£28k
Ukrainian PatriotFY2023£28k
Solidarites InternationalFY2023£28k
Marine Mammal CenterFY2023£25k
Southampton and Winchester Visitors GroupFY2023£25k
The Tablet TrustFY2023£25k
Medecins Sans Frontieres UKFY2023£25k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2023£25k
Association IMADFY2023£22k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2023£22k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2023£22k
SOS Mediterranee FranceFY2023£22k
Birdlife InternationalFY2023£22k
Be Free Young CarersFY2023£20k
Oxford Lieder LimitedFY2023£20k
The Turtle HospitalFY2023£20k
Working Chance LimitedFY2023£20k
The PorchFY2023£20k
Support a Survivor of TortureFY2023£20k
Linkage Community Trust LtdFY2023£20k
Welsh Housing Aid (Shelter Cymru)FY2023£20k
Road to RecoveryFY2023£20k
Kent Refugee Action NetworkFY2023£20k
ReprieveFY2023£17k
Wilderness Youth ProjectFY2023£17k
Virtual DoctorsFY2023£17k
Memorial de la ShoahFY2023£15k
Cutteslowe Community AssociationFY2023£15k
Santa Barbara Museum of ArtFY2023£15k
Greenpeace Enviromental TrustFY2023£15k
Glass Door Homeless CharityFY2023£11k
Spark InsideFY2023£11k
Oxford Bach ChoirFY2023£10k
University of Oxford Botanic GardenFY2023£10k
Museum of OxfordFY2023£10k
Aladdin ProjectFY2023£10k
Prison Phoenix TrustFY2023£10k
ilotes VolontairesFY2022£325k
Memorial de la ShoahFY2022£300k
Duke of Edinburgh AwardFY2022£200k
Mddecins Sans FrontieresFY2022£200k
Exeter College OxfordFY2022£170k
Colorado State UniversityFY2022£150k
Ukrainian PatriotFY2022£145k
Claremont McKenna CollegeFY2022£140k
SOS HumanityFY2022£135k
Oxford Philharmonic OrchestraFY2022£135k
Oxford Bach ChoirFY2022£125k
Settle SupportFY2022£125k
Association IMADFY2022£125k
Leeds Hospital CharityFY2022£114k
Kent Refugee Action NetworkFY2022£110k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2022£110k
Children on the EdgeFY2022£100k
ohotography OxfordFY2022£100k
Human Rights Watch & InclusionFY2022£100k
One Acre FundFY2022£100k
Theatres TrustFY2022£100k
Oxford Food HubFY2022£100k
ShelterboxFY2022£100k
University of Oxford (The JRR Tolkien Professor and Language)FY2022£92k
Southampton and Winchester Visitors' GroupFY2022£90k
Oxford Playhouse TrustFY2022£90k
Alzheimer's Research UKFY2022£80k
Glass Door Homeless CharityFY2022£80k
University of SussexFY2022£75k
University of ManitobaFY2022£75k
Marine Mammal CenterFY2022£70k
Be Free Young CarersFY2022£70k
Asylum WelcomeFY2022£70k
Linkage Community Trust LtdFY2022£70k
Hillside HouseFY2022£70k
The Tablet TrustFY2022£50k
Maison ShalomFY2022£50k
ClientEarthFY2022£50k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2022£50k
Linda Norgrove FoundationFY2022£50k
Camfed InternationalFY2022£50k
My Name'5 Doddie FoundationFY2022£50k
SchoolReadersFY2022£45k
Museum of Oxford DevelopmentFY2022£40k
Working ChanceFY2022£40k
Dominican CouncilFY2022£40k
Emergency UKFY2022£40k
The Turtle HospitalFY2022£40k
oesticide Action UKFY2022£40k
Change Please FoundationFY2022£35k
Challenging MNDFY2022£35k
Spark InsideFY2022£30k
Detention ActionFY2022£30k
Videre Est CredereFY2022£30k
Work Rights CentreFY2022£30k
Marie CurieFY2022£30k
Medecins du MondeFY2022£30k
Doctors of The World UKFY2022£30k
Age UKFY2022£30k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2022£30k
Direct ReliefFY2022£30k
RefuAid (Prism the Gift Fund)FY2022£25k
ResQFY2022£25k
San Marcos High School AAPLE Acad emyFY2022£25k
Support a Survivor of TortureFY2022£25k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Educe tion on the Arms Trade)FY2022£25k
University of Oxford Botanic GardenFY2022£25k
Vll FoundationFY2022£25k
Wiener Holocaust LibraryFY2022£25k
Wilderness Youth ProjectFY2022£25k
risoners AbroadFY2022£25k
rimo Levi CentreFY2022£25k
oanzi FoundationFY2022£25k
Cutteslowe Community AssociationFY2022£25k
Oxford Shakespeare EnsembleFY2022£20k
St Luke's OxfordFY2022£20k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2022£20k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2022£20k
Become CharityFY2022£20k
Birdlife InternationalFY2022£20k
Bodleian LibraryFY2022£20k
Centre Primo LeviFY2022£20k
ReprieveFY2022£20k
Analysed belowFY2022£20k
ActionAidFY2022£20k
Aladdin ProjectFY2022£20k
rison Phoenix TrustFY2022£20k
VNA Health FoundationFY2022£15k
Dragon School TrustFY2022£15k
Sanctuary Hosting LimitedFY2022£15k
La CimadeFY2022£15k
Hope Project LesvosFY2022£10k
Road to RecoveryFY2022£10k
Santa Barbara Museum of ArtFY2022£10k
Solidarltes InternationalFY2022£10k
Reading List FoundationFY2022£10k
University of Oxford (Care for COVID-orphaned children)FY2022£10k
Oxford Lieder LimitedFY2022£10k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2021£1.6m
Médecins Sans FrontiéresFY2021£400k
Client EarthFY2021£200k
Greenpeace Environment TrustFY2021£150k
ActionAidFY2021£150k
ReprieveFY2021£145k
Southampton and Winchester Visitors’ GroupFY2021£130k
Solidarités InternationalFY2021£120k
Glass DoorFY2021£120k
University of Oxford (The JRR Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language)FY2021£100k
Prism the Gift Fund (Help Refugees)FY2021£100k
La CimadeFY2021£100k
Santa Barbara Museum of ArtFY2021£100k
Médecins du MondeFY2021£100k
Memorial de la ShoahFY2021£100k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2021£100k
Camfed InternationalFY2021£100k
Oxford Bach ChoirFY2021£95k
Oxford Shakespeare Ensemble (Creation Theatre Company)FY2021£90k
Centre Primo LeviFY2021£85k
Asylum WelcomeFY2021£80k
Photography OxfordFY2021£80k
Oxford Playhouse TrustFY2021£75k
Linkage Community TrustFY2021£50k
Become CharityFY2021£50k
Shelter CymruFY2021£50k
Claremont CollegeFY2021£45k
Change Please FoundationFY2021£40k
Working ChanceFY2021£40k
Direct ReliefFY2021£40k
Detention ActionFY2021£40k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2021£35k
Alzheimer Research UKFY2021£30k
Marie CurieFY2021£30k
Maison Shalom France (Rwanda)FY2021£30k
Children On The EdgeFY2021£30k
SOS MediterranéeFY2021£30k
Museum of Oxford Development TrustFY2021£30k
Hope Project (Lesbos)FY2021£30k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2021£30k
Videre est CredereFY2021£30k
Marine Mammal CentreFY2021£30k
San Marcos High School AAPLE AcademyFY2021£25k
Turtle HospitalFY2021£25k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade)FY2021£25k
Spark InsideFY2021£25k
Sanctuary HostingFY2021£25k
Road to RecoveryFY2021£25k
Reading List FoundationFY2021£25k
The PorchFY2021£25k
Prison Phoenix TrustFY2021£25k
New Bridge FoundationFY2021£25k
Dragon School TrustFY2021£25k
Bodleian LibraryFY2021£25k
University of Oxford Botanic GardenFY2021£25k
University of Oxford (Care for COVID-orphaned children)FY2021£25k
Refugees at HomeFY2021£20k
Association IMADFY2021£20k
Theatres TrustFY2021£20k
Aladdin ProjectFY2021£20k
SchoolreadersFY2021£20k
Linda Norgrove FoundationFY2021£20k
Oxford Philharmonic OrchestraFY2021£20k
The Tablet TrustFY2021£20k
Pesticide Action Network UKFY2021£20k
Medical FoundationFY2021£20k
Birdlife InternationalFY2021£20k
Support a Survivor of TortureFY2021£20k
Be Free Young CarersFY2021£20k
Prisoners AbroadFY2021£20k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2021£20k
Kent Refugee ActionFY2021£15k
Cutteslowe & District Community AssociationFY2021£15k
Oxford Lieder FestivalFY2021£15k
Wiener LibraryFY2021£15k
ResQFY2021£15k
Settle SupportFY2021£15k
Humanity & InclusionFY2021£10k
Pilotes VolontairesFY2021£10k
Panzi FoundationFY2021£10k
Oxford Food HubFY2021£10k
Emergency UKFY2021£10k
Wilderness YouthFY2021£10k
Dominican Council (Blackfriars)FY2021£10k
University of SussexFY2021£10k

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 6020578 vs reference 6044078 (0.4% 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.