BREAKTHROUGH FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income
£40.0m
Grants listed (FY2025)
8
Listed grants total
£52.6m
Accounts grants total
£52.3m

Write-backs & cancellations (all years shown): 1 entry, −£500k. These are listed separately below and are not netted off the grant totals or counted as grants.

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2023: 1 grant totalling £106.7m is listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

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 (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2023FY2025
newBreakthrough Prize Foundation—£31.7m
newBreakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation—£8.6m
newAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv University—£5.0m
newBlue Square Alliance Against Hate—£150k
newAmerican Technion Society—£150k
downFriends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre£17.5m£1.0m
not listedAmerican Friends of Magen David£3.5m—
not listedFoundation CERN & Societe£2.5m—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Breakthrough Prize FoundationFY2025£31.7m
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences FoundationFY2025£8.6m
American Friends of Tel Aviv UniversityFY2025£5.0m
Jewish Agency for IsraelFY2025£5.0m
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CentreFY2025£1.0m
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaFY2025£1.0m
Blue Square Alliance Against HateFY2025£150k
American Technion SocietyFY2025£150k
American Friends of Tel Aviv UniversityFY2024amount not stated
American Technion SocietyFY2024amount not stated
Breakthrough Prize FoundationFY2024amount not stated
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences FoundationFY2024amount not stated
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaFY2024amount not stated
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CentreFY2024amount not stated
Jewish Agency for IsraelFY2024amount not stated
Previous grant committments no longer payableFY2024amount not stated
Foundation CERN & SocieteFY2024amount not stated
American Friends of Magen DavidFY2024amount not stated
Breakthrough Prize FoundationFY2023Unverified read£106.7mGrant funding of activities
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CentreFY2023£17.5mGrant funding of activities
Jewish Agency for IsraelFY2023£5.0mGrant funding of activities
American Friends of Magen DavidFY2023£3.5mGrant funding of activities
Foundation CERN & SocieteFY2023£2.5mGrant funding of activities
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaFY2023£1.0mGrant funding of activities
Breakthrough Prize FoundationFY2022£42.2m
The San Francisco FoundationFY2022£5.0m
Conference of Europe Rabbis StiftungFY2022£3.0m
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CentreFY2022£2.3m
GoFundMe.orgFY2022£2.0m
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaFY2022£1.0m
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences FoundationFY2022£555k
OtherFY2022£100k
Bay Area Council FoundationFY2022amount not stated
Social Impact FundFY2022amount not stated
Breakthrough Prize FoundationFY2021£62.0m
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaFY2021£58k
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences FoundationFY2021£1k
The Foundation to Combat Anti-SemitismFY2021amount not stated
Beijing Xiaomi FoundationFY2021amount not stated
Bay Area Council FoundationFY2021amount not stated
Academy FoundationFY2021amount not stated
OtherFY2021amount not stated
Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CentreFY2021amount not stated
Social Impact FundFY2021amount not stated
Magen David Adom in IsraelFY2021amount not stated
Stanford University - Development ServicesFY2021amount not stated
Keren Hayesod JerusalemFY2021amount not stated
University of CambridgeFY2021amount not stated
Friends of the IsraelFY2021amount not stated
Tel Aviv UniversityFY2021amount not stated

25 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

Write-backs & cancellations

1 entry totalling −£500k in this funder’s accounts are negative amounts, such as the write-back of an accrued grant or a cancelled grant. They are shown here on their own and are not netted off the grants total or counted as grants above. They are in the CSV with amount_note “write_back”.

RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Previous grant commitments no longer dueFY2022−£500k

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 52604000 vs reference 52304000 (0.6% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.