THE KURT AND MAGDA STERN FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£213k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£291k

Accounts grants total

£266k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 4 of 6 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (67%), and 1 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 22.

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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

Education/training (6 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Scotland (4 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Croydon (1 grantee)
Dorset (1 grantee)
Hampshire (1 grantee)
Isle Of Wight (1 grantee)
Leicestershire (1 grantee)
Birmingham City (1 grantee)
Portsmouth City (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	MEDICAL JUSTICE NETWORK LIMITED	—	£25k
new	PEOPLE'S HEALTH TRUST	—	£20k
up	RESPECT	£13k	£109k
up	YOUNG ROOTS	£100	£60k
down	THE HAMPTON TRUST (HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT)	£150k	£50k

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Respect	FY2025	£109k	Bridging funding for the Centre for Excellence development phase (£8,599), first payment of two-year commitment for Centre for Excellence (£50,000), and advance of 50% of second-year funding (£50,000).
Young Roots	FY2025	£60k	Two-year commitment funding (£30,000 pa).
The Hampton Trust	FY2025	£50k	First payment of a new, three-year unrestricted funding commitment.
The Difference	FY2025	£28k	Funding for a new strand of work focused on understanding and addressing harmful and abusive behaviours among children and young people, including support for IncludED conference.
Medical Justice	FY2025	£25k	First payment of a new, two-year unrestricted funding commitment.
People’s Health Trust	FY2025	£20k	Co-funding a research project looking into the impact of the racist riots across the UK in the summer of 2024 on marginalised communities.
The Hampton Trust	FY2024	£150k	Unrestricted funding
The Difference	FY2024	£25k	Unrestricted funding
Respect	FY2024	£13k	Co-funding phase one development of a Centre for Excellence
Young Roots	FY2024	£100	Year-three of three-year commitment for Policy and Advocacy Director costs (co-funded with Treebeard Trust)
The Hampton Trust	FY2023	£53k	Year-one salary of Development Manager (£43,000) and unrestricted inflationary payment (£10,000)
Young Roots	FY2023	£30k	Year-two commitment for Policy and Advocacy Director role (50% of cost)
The Difference	FY2023	£25k	Unrestricted funding
Medical Justice	FY2023	£25k	Year-two unrestricted funding
Young Roots	FY2023	£10k	Unrestricted inflationary payment
Medical Justice	FY2023	£10k	Unrestricted inflationary payment
The Difference	FY2022	£50k	to continue this work
The Hampton Trust	FY2022	£41k	for the salary of the post of Development Manager
Young Roots	FY2022	£30k	restricted to meeting 50% of the costs for the creation of a new role of Policy and Advocacy Director
Leap Confronting Conflict	FY2022	£25k	to help them continue to develop and deliver this work
Medical Justice	FY2022	£25k	unrestricted funding

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 291219 vs reference 266219 (9.4% 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.