THE TOLKIEN TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 1150801 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£6.5m
Grants listed (FY2023)
107
Listed grants total
£5.6m
Accounts grants total
£5.5m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2023 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.

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 (32 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (24 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (18 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (13 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (12 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (11 grantees)
  • Overseas Aid/famine Relief (11 grantees)
  • Disability (10 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (6 grantees)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (21 grantees)
  • Oxfordshire (10 grantees)
  • Tanzania (8 grantees)
  • Kenya (8 grantees)
  • Uganda (7 grantees)
  • India (6 grantees)
  • Lebanon (6 grantees)
  • Malawi (6 grantees)
  • Sierra Leone (6 grantees)
  • Zambia (6 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
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
Pilotes VolontairesFY2023£94k
University of ManitobaFY2023£94k
Maison ShalomFY2023£93k
Duke of Edinburgh AwardFY2023£90k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2023£85k
Pesticide Action Network UKFY2023£80k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2023£80k
Direct ReliefFY2023£80k
Settle SupportFY2023£77k
Age UKFY2023£70k
La CimadeFY2023£70k
Alzheimer's Research UKFY2023£70k
Save the Children FundFY2023£55k
Bodleian LibraryFY2023£55k
Hillside HouseFY2023£55k
VII FoundationFY2023£52k
Refugees at HomeFY2023£52k
Claremont McKenna CollegeFY2023£50k
Challenging MNDFY2023£50k
SOS HumanityFY2023£50k
Become CharityFY2023£50k
Hope Project LesvosFY2023£50k
Mango Tree Orphan Support ProgrammeFY2023£50k
Dragon School TrustFY2023£49k
Human Rights WatchFY2023£45k
Creation TheatreFY2023£45k
Oxford Playhouse TrustFY2023£44k
Sanctuary Hosting LimitedFY2023£44k
Centre Primo LeviFY2023£44k
Wiener Holocaust LibraryFY2023£44k
Detention ActionFY2023£40k
Colorado State University FoundationFY2023£40k
SchoolreadersFY2023£40k
Dominican CouncilFY2023£35k
Prisoners AbroadFY2023£35k
University of Oxford (Care for COVID-orphaned children)FY2023£35k
Humanity & InclusionFY2023£33k
Children on the EdgeFY2023£33k
Medecins du MondeFY2023£33k
Camfed InternationalFY2023£30k
University of SussexFY2023£30k
Videre Est CredereFY2023£30k
Work Rights CenreFY2023£30k
Reading List FoundationFY2023£30k
RefuAid (Prism the Gift Fund)FY2023£30k
RESQ ONLUSFY2023£30k
VNA Health FoundationFY2023£30k
AAPLE Academy FoundationFY2023£30k
Festival Medical ServicesFY2023£30k
Doctors of the World UKFY2023£30k
Exeter College OxfordFY2023£30k
St Luke's OxfordFY2023£28k
Panzi FoundationFY2023£28k
Ukrainian PatriotFY2023£28k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade)FY2023£28k
Solidarites InternationalFY2023£28k
Photography OxfordFY2023£28k
The Tablet TrustFY2023£25k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2023£25k
Medecins Sans Frontieres UKFY2023£25k
Marine Mammal CenterFY2023£25k
Southampton and Winchester Visitors GroupFY2023£25k
Birdlife InternationalFY2023£22k
Association IMADFY2023£22k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2023£22k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2023£22k
SOS Mediterranee FranceFY2023£22k
Welsh Housing Aid (Shelter Cymru)FY2023£20k
Be Free Young CarersFY2023£20k
Kent Refugee Action NetworkFY2023£20k
Linkage Community Trust LtdFY2023£20k
Oxford Lieder LimitedFY2023£20k
Road to RecoveryFY2023£20k
Support a Survivor of TortureFY2023£20k
The PorchFY2023£20k
The Turtle HospitalFY2023£20k
Working Chance LimitedFY2023£20k
ReprieveFY2023£17k
Wilderness Youth ProjectFY2023£17k
Virtual DoctorsFY2023£17k
Santa Barbara Museum of ArtFY2023£15k
Cutteslowe Community AssociationFY2023£15k
Greenpeace Enviromental TrustFY2023£15k
Memorial de la ShoahFY2023£15k
Spark InsideFY2023£11k
Glass Door Homeless CharityFY2023£11k
University of Oxford Botanic GardenFY2023£10k
Oxford Bach ChoirFY2023£10k
Museum of OxfordFY2023£10k
Prison Phoenix TrustFY2023£10k
Aladdin ProjectFY2023£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
Association IMADFY2022£125k
Settle SupportFY2022£125k
Leeds Hospital CharityFY2022£114k
Best Friends Animal SocietyFY2022£110k
Kent Refugee Action NetworkFY2022£110k
Oxford Food HubFY2022£100k
ShelterboxFY2022£100k
Children on the EdgeFY2022£100k
Theatres TrustFY2022£100k
Human Rights Watch & InclusionFY2022£100k
One Acre FundFY2022£100k
ohotography OxfordFY2022£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 ManitobaFY2022£75k
University of SussexFY2022£75k
Asylum WelcomeFY2022£70k
Be Free Young CarersFY2022£70k
Hillside HouseFY2022£70k
Linkage Community Trust LtdFY2022£70k
Marine Mammal CenterFY2022£70k
The Tablet TrustFY2022£50k
ClientEarthFY2022£50k
Camfed InternationalFY2022£50k
British Friends of Neve ShalomFY2022£50k
Linda Norgrove FoundationFY2022£50k
Maison ShalomFY2022£50k
My Name'5 Doddie FoundationFY2022£50k
SchoolReadersFY2022£45k
The Turtle HospitalFY2022£40k
oesticide Action UKFY2022£40k
Dominican CouncilFY2022£40k
Emergency UKFY2022£40k
Working ChanceFY2022£40k
Museum of Oxford DevelopmentFY2022£40k
Change Please FoundationFY2022£35k
Challenging MNDFY2022£35k
Marie CurieFY2022£30k
Direct ReliefFY2022£30k
Doctors of The World UKFY2022£30k
Howard League for Penal ReformFY2022£30k
Detention ActionFY2022£30k
Medecins du MondeFY2022£30k
Videre Est CredereFY2022£30k
Spark InsideFY2022£30k
Work Rights CentreFY2022£30k
Age UKFY2022£30k
TREAT (Trust for Research and Educe tion on the Arms Trade)FY2022£25k
Cutteslowe Community AssociationFY2022£25k
oanzi FoundationFY2022£25k
rimo Levi CentreFY2022£25k
risoners AbroadFY2022£25k
RefuAid (Prism the Gift Fund)FY2022£25k
ResQFY2022£25k
San Marcos High School AAPLE Acad emyFY2022£25k
Support a Survivor of TortureFY2022£25k
University of Oxford Botanic GardenFY2022£25k
Vll FoundationFY2022£25k
Wiener Holocaust LibraryFY2022£25k
Wilderness Youth ProjectFY2022£25k
Analysed belowFY2022£20k
ActionAidFY2022£20k
Aladdin ProjectFY2022£20k
Become CharityFY2022£20k
rison Phoenix TrustFY2022£20k
Basmeh & ZeitoonehFY2022£20k
St Luke's OxfordFY2022£20k
ReprieveFY2022£20k
Oxford Shakespeare EnsembleFY2022£20k
Centre Primo LeviFY2022£20k
Uganda Childbirth Injury FundFY2022£20k
Bodleian LibraryFY2022£20k
Birdlife InternationalFY2022£20k
Sanctuary Hosting LimitedFY2022£15k
La CimadeFY2022£15k
VNA Health FoundationFY2022£15k
Dragon School TrustFY2022£15k
Reading List FoundationFY2022£10k
Oxford Lieder LimitedFY2022£10k
Hope Project LesvosFY2022£10k
University of Oxford (Care for COVID-orphaned children)FY2022£10k
Santa Barbara Museum of ArtFY2022£10k
Road to RecoveryFY2022£10k
Solidarltes InternationalFY2022£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 5637000 vs reference 5520000 (2.1% 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.