ALAN DAVIDSON FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£406k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2.3m

Accounts grants total

£2.1m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: As of 2025, the Foundation is fully committed to a number of multi-year partnerships and grant agreements. We are therefore not accepting new funding applications at this time.

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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

Disability (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Northamptonshire (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (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	Longitude Prize on ALS	—	£1.5m
new	University of Oxford ACORN	—	£411k
new	The Davidson Prize	—	£94k
new	The University of Edinburgh	—	£50k
new	King's University PhD 4th year	—	£30k
new	The Big Draw	—	£15k
new	Scottish Huntington Association	—	£3k
not listed	MND Smart	£1.3m	—
not listed	Innervale Therapeutics	£158k	—
not listed	Motor Neurone Disease Scotland	£151k	—
not listed	University of Edinburgh	£3k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Longitude Prize on ALS	FY2025	£1.5m	Grant for ALS research
University of Oxford ACORN	FY2025	£411k	Making MND Preventable research project
Motor Neurone Disease Association	FY2025	£162k	Support for MND Association
The Davidson Prize	FY2025	£94k	Architectural and communication prize
The University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£50k	Scholarship for architectural student
King's University PhD 4th year	FY2025	£30k	PhD funding for TDP-43 gene mutation research
The Big Draw	FY2025	£15k	Support for Big Draw competition and Under-26 John Ruskin’s Prize
St John's Hospice	FY2025	£10k	Support for hospice
Scottish Huntington Association	FY2025	£3k	Support for charities
MND Smart	FY2024	£1.3m
Innervale Therapeutics	FY2024	£158k
Motor Neurone Disease Scotland	FY2024	£151k
Motor Neurone Disease Association	FY2024	£150k
St John's Hospice	FY2024	£10k
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£3k
Motor Neurone Disease Association	FY2023	£151k	Grant
Prize Sponsorship TDP	FY2023	£96k	Grant
St John's Hospice	FY2023	£10k	Grant
Euan's Guide	FY2023	£5k	Grant
Archiboo Award Sponsorship	FY2023	£4k	Grant
Lancashire Hospital	FY2023	£3k	Grant
Quickfire Media	FY2023	£3k	Grant
Scottish Huntington’s Association	FY2023	£2k	Grant
Motor Neurone Disease Scotland	FY2023	£350	Grant
University of Oxford	FY2022	£210k	Making MND Preventable research project
Motor Neurone Disease Association	FY2022	£148k	Support
Prize Sponsorship TDP	FY2022	£84k	Davidson Prize / TDP-43 gene PhD student
King’s College / Trical	FY2022	£75k	Funding Neuro / TRICALS trial
Motor Neurone Disease Scotland	FY2022	£75k	Support
University of Kent, Bursary	FY2022	£63k	Bursary
St John’s Hospice	FY2022	£30k	Support
Scottish Huntington’s Association	FY2022	£10k	Support
Favell Day Services	FY2022	£5k	Support
Archiboo Award Sponsorship	FY2022	£4k	Alan Davidson Award
Big Draw competition	FY2022	£4k	Support

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 2274808 vs reference 2132743 (6.7% 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.