THE COMPASS GROUP FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£722k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£675k

Accounts grants total

£650k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Foundation does not currently accept unsolicited applications for grants, instead it proactively identifies and develops relationships with social impact organisations. However, organisations are welcome to introduce themselves using our contact form. The Foundation acknowledges each message submitted, but might not be able to reply individually to all messages. If an organisation and/or proposal is of interest, we will contact you and may invite you to apply for a grant.

Summarised from www.compass-group.com/en/compass-group-foundation.html on 20/09/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England (2 grantees)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	The Ladder Foundation	—	£50k
new	National Minority Supplier Development Council	—	£37k
new	Association Food Sweet Food	—	£34k
new	STREET LEAGUE	—	£30k
new	NPO Florence	—	£30k
new	THE CARBON LITERACY TRUST	—	£30k
new	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center	—	£29k
new	Other	—	£25k
up	Turkey Earthquake Relief	£49k	£340k
down	SAI Swayam Society	£44k	£15k
down	Türkiye Down Syndrome Association	£41k	£15k
down	Carolina Farm Stewardship Association	£50k	£10k
not listed	DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal	£80k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Turkey Earthquake Relief	FY2024	£340k
The Ladder Foundation	FY2024	£50k	Support of 'Xcelerate your Future' programme
National Minority Supplier Development Council	FY2024	£37k	Support of 'Acres: Cultivating Equity in Black Agriculture' initiative
Association Food Sweet Food	FY2024	£34k	Support of programme to create tailor-made training solutions for collective catering sector
Street League	FY2024	£30k	Support of Renfrewshire Academy to help young people access jobs, education and training
NPO Florence	FY2024	£30k	Support in training nursery teachers to look after children with disabilities and/or in need of medical care
The Carbon Literacy Trust	FY2024	£30k	Support in providing education on climate action to SMEs in the food sector
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center	FY2024	£29k	Support in providing educational and public awareness activities aimed at decreasing the risk of modern slavery
Other	FY2024	£25k	Grants made to 15 charitable organisations for £25,000 or less
FoodCycle	FY2024	£20k
SAI Swayam Society	FY2024	£15k
Türkiye Down Syndrome Association	FY2024	£15k
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association	FY2024	£10k
Unnati	FY2024	£10k
The KERB	FY2024	£0
Bridging the GAP	FY2024	£0
Integra Foundation	FY2024	£0
DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal	FY2023	£80k
Bridging the GAP	FY2023	£50k
The KERB	FY2023	£50k
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association	FY2023	£50k
Turkey Earthquake Relief	FY2023	£49k
SAI Swayam Society	FY2023	£44k
Türkiye Down Syndrome Association	FY2023	£41k
Integra Foundation	FY2023	£32k
FoodCycle	FY2023	£30k
Unnati	FY2023	£10k
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal	FY2022	£250k

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 674552 vs reference 649552 (3.8% 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.