JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1184957 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£35.1m
Grants listed (FY2024)
122
Listed grants total
£2.0m
Accounts grants total
£9.7m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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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 (22 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (17 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (16 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (15 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (7 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (7 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
  • Disability (4 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
  • Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (20 grantees)
  • Scotland (7 grantees)
  • Throughout England (5 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (5 grantees)
  • Bristol City (2 grantees)
  • Spain (2 grantees)
  • Poland (2 grantees)
  • Ghana (2 grantees)
  • Belgium (2 grantees)
  • India (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Loughborough UniversityFY2024£823kMinimum Income Standards 2025-2028
Heriot-Watt UniversityFY2024£491kDestitution in the UK 2026
Held CollectiveFY2024£190kOrganisational Resilience
JRFFY2024£150kPathfinder convenings/commissions
The Pathway Funding BodyFY2024£150kPathway Fund
YorSpace CLT LimitedFY2024£121kFiscal hosting for New Constellations York Crew
Two Ridings Community FoundationFY2024£83kCost of Living Fund 2024
Thinks Insight & StrategyFY2024£0Hardship and public services
Redhills DurhamFY2024£0Redhills Community Network
IPPRFY2024£0Getting the child poverty strategy right
Smart Data FoundryFY2024£0Smart Data Foundry - Banking Data
AKO Storytelling InstituteFY2024£0Futures Lab
FocaldataFY2024£0Care Public Attitudes
Access Right to CareFY2024£0Chatbot Development
Institute for Employment StudiesFY2024£0Reviewing the effectiveness of 'work first! employment support
Media LabFY2024£0LPC Activation (GoE Campaign)
Rubber RepublicFY2024£0Wonderbox
Institute for Fiscal StudiesFY2024£0Alternative to bright-line fiscal rules
Healing Justice London CICFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Participatory City TradingFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Civic Square BirminghamFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Knowle West Media CentreFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Onion Collective CICFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Open Systems LabFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
MAIA Collective CICFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Library of Things LimitedFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Dark Matter LabsFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Bioregional Learning CentreFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Stour Trust CICFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Dudley Council for Voluntary ServiceFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Doughnut Economics Action LabFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Centre For Alternative TechnologiesFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
JRFFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
IPPRFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Good Ancestors MovementFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Impact Investing InstituteFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Purpose FoundationFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Poetry PrescribedFY2024£0Delivering the National Care Service
The Advocacy AcademyFY2024£0Re-imagining Wealth
New Economy Organisers NetworkFY2024£0Growing & improving the effectiveness of impact investing
LocalityFY2024£0Advancing JRF's thinking on Re-imagining Wealth, Funding & Investment
Really Regenerative CentreFY2024£0Museum of Austerity
Spaceship Dot EarthFY2024£0Spoken Futurism Live
Footwork TrustFY2024£0HOST Youth Organising Framework
Shrishtee BajpaiFY2024£0Transformative Organising
Jyoti FernardesFY2024£0Funding for the We're Right Here campaign
Jack KY TanFY2024£0Research into regenerative, community-led, place-based transformation
Gathoni BlessolFY2024£0Visionaries Programme Network Steward
Community Centred KnowledgeFY2024£0Core funding - the development of a long-term funding ecosystem for community asset developers
Ace and Clover IncFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
The Bureau of Investigative JournalismFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
Social FinanceFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
London School of EconomicsFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
Ready Media Limited T/A Work & ClassFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
Act Build ChangeFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
JRFFY2024£0Emerging Futures Visionaries Programme Member
Funding a community journalist in BradfordFY2024£0Leveraging the Government balance sheet to increase the supply of affordable housing
Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let's Talk WealthertyFY2024£0Seeds of Hope launch + publicity
Transformative OrganisingFY2024£0Transformative Organising
Narrative Infrastructures to build hope and belief that other worlds are possible with a broader audienceFY2024£0Narrative Infrastructures to build hope and belief that other worlds are possible with a broader audience
Seed GuardiansFY2024£0Seed Guardians
Voter Expectations of Labour on tackling hardshipFY2024£0Voter Expectations of Labour on tackling hardship
Sea Change HartlepoolFY2024£0Sea Change Hartlepool
StorythingsFY2024£0Storythings - Production of a Microsite
Cost of Living Tracker waves 7 and 8FY2024£0Cost of Living Tracker waves 7 and 8
WCA REFORMS.FY2024£0WCA REFORMS.
Shaping good work through social securityFY2024£0Shaping good work through social security
Quantifying the cost of low pay for care workersFY2024£0Quantifying the cost of low pay for care workers
Demonstrating the Transformational Capabilities of Cities in SheffieldFY2024£0Demonstrating the Transformational Capabilities of Cities in Sheffield
York Space ScopingFY2024£0York Space Scoping
After the Riots - Deep ListeningFY2024£0After the Riots - Deep Listening
Consultancy Work for Insight InfrastructureFY2024£0Consultancy Work for Insight Infrastructure
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Changing the face of the UK's food systemFY2024£0Changing the face of the UK's food system
Scottish Budget Analysis ReportFY2024£0Scottish Budget Analysis Report
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Pathfinders Project 2024FY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Developing a new model for funding childcareFY2024£0Developing a new model for funding childcare
Narrative Power Collective Impact ProgrammeFY2024£0Narrative Power Collective Impact Programme
The power of narrative and storytelling for social changeFY2024£0The power of narrative and storytelling for social change
Emergency Action FundFY2024£0Emergency Action Fund
Reimagining Funding, Philanthropy and InvestmentsFY2024£0Reimagining Funding, Philanthropy and Investments
The Fete of Britain: On TourFY2024£0The Fete of Britain: On Tour
Port Talbot Gotta BanksyFY2024£0Port Talbot Gotta Banksy
Public attitudes towards child poverty in ScotlandFY2024£0Public attitudes towards child poverty in Scotland
Next Frontiers Conference: Content CuratorFY2024£0Next Frontiers Conference: Content Curator
Licence for use of the IPPR Tax Benefit ModelFY2024£0Licence for use of the IPPR Tax Benefit Model
Navigating Political ChangeFY2024£0Navigating Political Change
Adaptive Action & Learning Lab ProgrammeFY2024£0Adaptive Action & Learning Lab Programme
Scotland Demands BetterFY2024£0Scotland Demands Better
Unrestricted funding for Hope Not HateFY2024£0Unrestricted funding for Hope Not Hate
Seebohm Rowntree Community Theatre ShowFY2024£0Seebohm Rowntree Community Theatre Show
Grants under £25,000FY2024£0Grants under £25,000
Total grants linked to JRF objectivesFY2024£0Total grants linked to JRF objectives
Other Non Research and Development Grants made were:FY2024£0Other Non Research and Development Grants made were:
Strategic SupportFY2024£0Strategic Support
The Homestead ParkFY2024£0The Homestead Park
Write-back projects approved in previous years no longer requiredFY2024£0Write-back projects approved in previous years no longer required
Further information on the grant commitments in the year is available in the Trustees’ Annual Report and on the JRF website.FY2024£0Further information on the grant commitments in the year is available in the Trustees’ Annual Report and on the JRF website.
Where JRF is identified as the organisation it is holding funds on behalf of others to distribute.FY2024£0Where JRF is identified as the organisation it is holding funds on behalf of others to distribute.
Watershed Arts TrustFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
English Touring TheatreFY2024£0Narrative Power Collective Impact Programme - Participation
Hastings Common CLT LTDFY2024£0Pathfinders Project 2024
Institute for Employment StudiesFY2024£0Health Benefits
The Trussell TrustFY2024£0Trussell/ JRF Lobby Day
IPPRFY2024£0Fiscal Sustainability Beyond the Debt Ratio
JRFFY2024£0Next Frontiers Conference 2024
Partnership: JRF & NationwideFY2024£0Talking about Housing: mobilisation phase
Warwick Institute for EmploymentFY2024£0Aligning a pro social security drumbeat
JRFFY2023£8.5mTotal grants linked to JRF objectives
JRFFY2023£998kGrants under £25,000
Bevan FoundationFY2023£541kBevan Foundation Partnership 2024-2026
JRFFY2023£539kOther Non Research and Development Grants made were: Strategic Support
Voice4Change EnglandFY2023£530kPathway Fund
Nuffield Politics Research CentreFY2023£370kJRF NPRC Economic Insecurity Panel Study
JRFFY2023£359kThe Homestead Park
Global DialogueFY2023£242kEnabling a movement to end ‘no recourse to public funds’
HuddlecraftFY2023£190kCollective Imagination Community of Practice - Open Collective
Global DialogueFY2023£188kEnabling a movement to end ‘no recourse to public funds’
Thrive TeesideFY2023£186kParticipation, Policy, Possibilities: Poverty2Solutions 2023-2026
JRFFY2023£144kPoverty and Stigma Programme
New Writing NorthFY2023£144kA Writing Chance
JRFFY2023£133kRegional Grants (Note i)
Frameworks UKFY2023£125kUK Mindset Project
Two Ridings Community FoundationFY2023£120kCost of Living Crisis Fund
Smart Data FoundaryFY2023£108kSmart Data foundry - banking data
JRFFY2023£107kNext Frontiers Conference
Hello BraveFY2023£100kBlack Designers Guild
University of CambridgeFY2023£100kFinance for Systemic Change - core funding
Living Wage FoundationFY2023£92kFunding the Calculation of the Real Living Wage Rates
Institute for Fiscal StudiesFY2023£90kReport on living standards, poverty and inequality
Opus Independents LtdFY2023£84kDemonstrating the Transformational Capabilities of Cities in Sheffield
The Poverty AllianceFY2023£75kChallenge Poverty Week
DEMOSFY2023£70kThe Social Media Listening Project
JRFFY2023£70kNorthern Regional Mapping Project
Living Wage FoundationFY2023£70kScaling Living Hours
HuddlecraftFY2023£68kHosting Imagination Community in Practice
FocaldataFY2023£67kPre-election Public Attitudes Project (deep listening) Phase 1
Heard Organisation LtdFY2023£67kTalking About Poverty
Policy in PracticeFY2023£65kVolatility in earnings and incomes
New Economics FoundationFY2023£62kReforming conditionality
Resolution FoundationFY2023£60kVolatility in earnings and incomes
Civic Power FundFY2023£60kWarm Welcome Listening Campaign
Peoples EconomyFY2023£60kYouth Imagination
EarchPercentFY2023£60kParticipatory worldbuilding through music
The Real Farming TrustFY2023£60kA Platform for Progressive Landowners
Manchester MetropolitanFY2023£59kEnhancing the tax-benefit modelling functionality
GingerbreadFY2023£58kGingerbread - Making the case for reform
London School of EconomicsFY2023£57kVisual Frames and Wealth Inequality
Onion Collective CICFY2023£56kPathfinders Programme
Dudley CVSFY2023£52kPathfinders Programme
MAIA CreativesFY2023£52kPathfinders Programme
Watershed Arts TrustFY2023£52kPathfinders Programme
Dark Matter LabsFY2023£52kPathfinders Programme
Civic Square BirminghamFY2023£52kPathfinders Programme
Labour Together LtdFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Healing Justice LondonFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Centre for Alternative TechnologyFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Knowle West Media CentreFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Open Systems LabFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Participatory City TradingFY2023£51kPathfinders Programme
Invest In BritainFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Belfast Photo FestivalFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Climate 2025FY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
IPPRFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Data for ActionFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Open InnovationsFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Project TallawahFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Good Ancestors MovementFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Doughnut Economics ActionFY2023£50kPathfinders Programme
Policy in PracticeFY2023£49kAdmin Data
Opinium ResearchFY2023£48kOutsourced Workers
Social Vision Communications LtdFY2023£47kRe-imagining the Homestead Park, York
The Fawcett SocietyFY2023£46kComparing international Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) systems
SavantaFY2023£44kCost of Living Survey Autumn 2023/Spring 2024
Weusi LtdFY2023£43kBlack, Queer and Done
The Kings FundFY2023£43kQuantifying the short and medium term effect on demands on NHS services from poverty and/or the cost of living
Round our WayFY2023£42kRound our way
Social FinanceFY2023£41kSocial Finance - Building a care sector that delivers for users and workers
Purpose FoundationFY2023£40kAdvancing JRF's thinking on Re-imagining Wealth, Funding & Investment
Shared Infrastructure LtdFY2023£40kEmerging Futures Continued Support
Healing Justice LondonFY2023£40kCore funding for Healing Justice London Rehearsing Freedoms festival
Impact Investing InstituteFY2023£40kGrowing and Improving the effectiveness of impact investing
Social Change Nest CICFY2023£40kSocial Change Nest CIC - Help Desk
Debt JusticeFY2023£40kDebt Justice - Together against Debt - Core Funding
Empower AgencyFY2023£40kSocial Media Review Implementation
JRF & NationwideFY2023£36kTalking About Housing - Learning & Evaluation
ClientEarthFY2023£36kHidden wiring - wealth and law
Design MuseumFY2023£36kStrategic Roadmap for the UK (in partnership with UKRI and others)
Onion Collecrive CICFY2023£36kWhere are the Third Horizon grants?
Centre for Social Policy StudiesFY2023£36kCommunication & advocacy work to amplify the impact of the PSC
Stanford SocialFY2023£35kStanford Social Innovation Review
Public FirstFY2023£33kPre-election public attitudes project (deep listening) Phase 2 & 3
JRFFY2023£33kPathfinders Programme - extension
Black Farmers Market CICFY2023£32kPathfinders Programme
Multitudes Co-OperativeFY2023£32kPathfinders Programme
East Marsh UnitedFY2023£32kPathfinders Programme
Public FirstFY2023£32kFocus groups to test attitudes to hardship for the Essentials Guarantee campaign
The Bureau of Investigative JournalismFY2023£31kPathfinders Programme
Freedom and BlanceFY2023£31kPathfinders Programme
Kin StructuresFY2023£31kPathfinders Programme
Kiondo CICFY2023£31kPathfinders Programme
Free Black UniFY2023£30kBlack Imagination Exploration
University of BristolFY2023£30kBuilding the research base: infrastructure of the impagination
Living Wholeness InstituteFY2023£30kSystems Leadership for Transitions
Wolf Willow Institute for Systems LearningFY2023£30kLeadership for hospicing
Library of ThingsFY2023£30kAn alternative stewardship and funding model
Patriotic Millionnaires InternationalFY2023£30kCreating an Extreme Wealth Line
Gentle RadicalFY2023£30kPathfinders Programme
Land in Our NamesFY2023£30kPathfinders Programme
Noble ResearchFY2023£30kPathfinders Programme
YorSpace CLT LimitedFY2023£30kA Fairer kind of housing in York
Thrive Outside CICFY2023£30kCore funding for Thrive Outside CIC
Wowbagger ProductionsFY2023£30kShe could fly
Institute for Fiscal StudiesFY2023£30kIFS Retirement Saving Consortium 2023-25
InsightanoFY2023£30kMaking Sense of Data Gaps
University of VictoriaFY2023£30kImaginations of the Forest
Black Mountains CollegeFY2023£30kFieldbuilding for the ecological impagination
Greater Mancheter CVOFY2023£30kPathfinders Programme
Fraser of Allander InstituteFY2023£29kChildcare 2023 - Scotland
Adam BennettFY2023£29kLived Experience in Scotland
Kerry McCarthyFY2023£28kEmerging Futures Learning with Kerry McCarthy
Save the Children ScotlandFY2023£27kPublic attitudes towards child poverty in Scotland
Social FinanceFY2023£26kUser Testing and technical learning partnership
Living Wholeness InstituteFY2023£25kHow to Accelerate depth learning for systemic transitions
Faith in Community ScotlandFY2023£25kThe Poverty Truth Community
JRFFY2023£-162kWrite-back projects approved in previous years no longer required
Heriot-Watt UniversityFY2021£494kDestitution in the UK Research Project (2022 - 2023)
The Homestead ParkFY2021£320kOther Non Research and Development Grants made were:
Grants under £25,000FY2021£315kTotal grants linked to JRF outcomes
Heriot-Watt UniversityFY2021£296kFair Way Scotland (Homelessness and Destitution)
Institute for Fiscal StudiesFY2021£235kLiving standards, poverty and inequality 2021 - 2023
Blavatnik School of GovernmentFY2021£229kSheffield Action Narrative Project
Legatum InstituteFY2021£150kSocial Metrics Commission : Launch of a Poverty Strategy Commission and policy simulator model
Barrow Cadbury TrustFY2021£150kFair by Design Campaign 2021 - 2024
YorkFY2021£126kRegional Grants
Strategic SupportFY2021£125kOther Non Research and Development Grants made were:
Poverty Truth NetworkFY2021£120kBuilding upon the growing impact of Poverty Truth Commissions
Fundng 6 grassroots organisationsFY2021£100kCollaborative funding with Lankelly Chase of six grassroots organisations
Voice4Change EnglandFY2021£92kReframing Race: Testing times for new frames
Edge Hill UniversityFY2021£83kCo-producing solutions with lower-income renters in Scotland
London Unemployed StrategiesFY2021£82kCarers' Co-design Project
Bevan FoundationFY2021£75kBevan Foundation Partnership 2022
Faith in Community ScotlandFY2021£75kPoverty Truth Community 2021 – 2024: Partnership Agreement
HartlepoolFY2021£65kRegional Grants
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityFY2021£59kAssessing the impact of the Local Housing Allowance on poverty and low-income households
Citizens UKFY2021£55kA Living Wage in Social Care
Mums on a MissionFY2021£43kCommunity Voices Programme - Mums on a Mission
Little VillageFY2021£40kLittle Village Support Funding
The Orwell FoundationFY2021£40kThe Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2022
RE: generate TrustFY2021£36kCore Funding to ReGenerate Partnership 2022
OnwardFY2021£36kRepairing our Social Fabric
Poverty Truth NetworkFY2021£35kSupport the development of a national structure for the Povery Truth Network
ShelterFY2021£35kDocumenting the lives of people in Temporary Accommodation: Living in Limbo 2021
Faith in Community DundeeFY2021£31kDundee Fighting for Fairness 2021 – 2023: Partnership Agreement
SavantaFY2021£31kThe financial position of low income households as Covid support comes to an end
Power to ChangeFY2021£30kWe’re Right Here: the campaign for community power
Staffordshire UniversityFY2021£30kAction on Poverty and Hardship Bursaries Funding
Achievegood LtdFY2021£29kAmazon Fife community project
Fabian SocietyFY2021£28kCommission on Poverty and Place
Bright BlueFY2021£28kA centre ground on race: conversations on building a diverse society: essay collection
The Poverty AllianceFY2021£25kEnd Poverty Edinburgh

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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 2008000 vs reference 9670000 (79.2% 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.