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

FY2024: all 37 listed grants are unverified reads (£4.4m in total) and are excluded from totals and counts (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

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: 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.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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

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

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 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.