THE PERMIRA FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1175061 · filings on the Charity Commission register · its own accounts analysis · funder finder · deadlines · watch this funder · check a grantee list

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

• How to apply: Both the Spark Fund and the Growth Fund are invite-only. The foundation states: 'Both funds are invite-only.'

Summarised from www.permira.com/responsibility/permira-foundation · www.permira.com/news-and-insights/announcements/permira-foundation-launches-its-growth-fund · www.permira.com/news-and-insights/announcements/permira-foundation-welcomes-four-new-non-profit-partners-to-its-spark-fund on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

• SMART WORKS CHARITY “The Permira Foundation supports Smart Works through both funding and pro bono assistance to drive our mission to reach 1”
• THE LONDON EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION “Permira has been a committed partner of LEYF since 2020. It has supported us in a variety of ways, including funding our”

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).

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.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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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 1296539 vs reference 4242868 (69.4% 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.