THE ELMA FOUNDATION (UK) — grant history

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Latest income

£7.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£5.0m

Accounts grants total

£5.0m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2021: 1 grant totalling £252k 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

Education/training (5 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (4 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Ghana (5 grantees)
Malawi (2 grantees)
South Africa (2 grantees)
Uganda (2 grantees)
Zimbabwe (2 grantees)
Tanzania (2 grantees)
Zambia (2 grantees)
France (1 grantee)
China (1 grantee)
Bulgaria (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → 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.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	CAMIFED	—	£2.9m
new	Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (“Sightsavers”)	—	£667k
up	SABRE EDUCATION LIMITED	£175k	£350k
not listed	CAMFED INTERNATIONAL	£2.5m	—
not listed	Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (a.k.a. “Sightsavers”)	£1.3m	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
CAMIFED	FY2025	£2.9m	Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Kids OR	FY2025	£756k	Health Workforce
Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (“Sightsavers”)	FY2025	£667k	Neglected Tropical Diseases
Sabre Education Ltd.	FY2025	£350k	Early Childhood Development
Lively Minds	FY2025	£350k	Early Childhood Development
Camfed international	FY2024	£2.5m	Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (a.k.a. “Sightsavers”)	FY2024	£1.3m	Neglected Tropical Diseases
Kids OR	FY2024	£807k	Health Workforce
Lively Minds	FY2024	£433k	Early Childhood Development
Sabre Education Ltd.	FY2024	£175k	Early Childhood Development
Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (“Sightsavers”)	FY2023	£1.9m	Neglected Tropical Diseases
CAMFED	FY2023	£1.0m	Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Kids OR	FY2023	£551k	Health Workforce
Lively Minds	FY2023	£433k	Early Childhood Development
Sabre Education Ltd.	FY2023	£175k	Early Childhood Development
Clean Air Fund	FY2023	amount not stated	Special Opportunities
Promoting Equality in African Schools	FY2023	amount not stated	Special Opportunities
Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (a.k. a. "Sightsavers")	FY2021	£9.2m	Neglected Tropical Diseases
Clean Air Fund	FY2021	£650k	Special Opportunities
CAMFED international	FY2021	Unverified read£252k	Special Opportunities
Promoting Equality in African Schools	FY2021	£250k	Private Sector Solutions
Delta Philanthropies	FY2021	£204k	Special Opportunities
Centre for Global Development Europe	FY2021	£160k	Early Childhood Development
Lively Minds	FY2021	£150k	Early Childhood Development

2 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 4999161 vs reference 4999161 (0.0% 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.