THE GUARDIAN FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1153865 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£1.5m
Grants listed (FY2024)
16
Listed grants total
£628k
Accounts grants total
£314k

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

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.theguardianfoundation.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 (4 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
  • General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
  • Religious Activities (1 grantee)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Scotland (2 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
  • City Of Wakefield (1 grantee)
  • Kirklees (1 grantee)
  • Bradford City (1 grantee)
  • Throughout England (1 grantee)
  • Leeds City (1 grantee)
  • Calderdale (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

Download this grant history as CSV (open data, provenance and licence noted in the file).

RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Church Action on PovertyFY2024£314kVoice & Agency
DMRAFY2024£202kMedia Viability
CafeynFY2024£38kVoice & Agency
National Literacy TrustFY2024£14kNews & Media literacy
City University of LondonFY2024£12kVoice & Agency
University of SheffieldFY2024£12kVoice & Agency
Goldsmiths CollegeFY2024£11kVoice & Agency
PSHE AssociationFY2024£8kNews & Media literacy
Manchester MetropolitanFY2024£6kVoice & Agency
Birmingham UniversityFY2024£5kVoice & Agency
Leeds Trinity UniversityFY2024£4kVoice & Agency
Homegrown in TottenhamFY2024£2kVoice & Agency
Screen Education EdinburghFY2024£0Voice & Agency
CYMRU CreationsFY2024£0Voice & Agency
Unlimited PotentialFY2024£0Voice & Agency
Northern FilmFY2024£0Voice & Agency

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 628158 vs reference 314079 (100.0% 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.