THE KPMG FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£995k

Accounts grants total

£1.6m

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

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 27 of 30 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (90%), and 23 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 75.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: We develop long term and significant relationships with a relatively small number of organisations. This is helped by proactive research and networks by our team, trustees and colleagues, rather than an open application process.

Summarised from kpmgfoundation.org.uk · kpmgfoundation.org.uk/our-grants.html on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

SEEN HEARD BELIEVED “This innovative approach and it’s early successes led us to securing KPMG Foundation Funding.”

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 (19 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (11 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (9 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
Disability (6 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (4 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (12 grantees)
Scotland (7 grantees)
Throughout England (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
South Tyneside (2 grantees)
North Tyneside (2 grantees)
Northumberland (2 grantees)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Hertfordshire (1 grantee)
Durham (1 grantee)

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.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Project Change	—	£120k
new	BIRTH COMPANIONS	—	£100k
new	SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN	—	£75k
new	THE HAPPY BABY COMMUNITY	—	£45k
new	Celcis	—	£30k
new	Early Years Wales	—	£25k
new	FACES	—	£25k
new	FAMILY GATEWAY	—	£25k
not listed	DIFFERENCE	£300k	—
not listed	NOW FOSTER: THE FUTURE LTD	£300k	—
not listed	FRG LTD	£225k	—
not listed	Juno	£175k	—
not listed	Fifty Things to do before you’re five	£150k	—
not listed	THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	£92k	—
not listed	THINK EQUAL	£75k	—
not listed	Dartington Service Design Lab	£70k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Project Change	FY2025	£120k	Building their capacity as an organisation ‘by care experienced people, for care experienced people’
Birth Companions	FY2025	£100k	Developing a national care pathway for women in contact with children’s social care
Safe Families	FY2025	£75k	Supporting families to prevent children entering the care system and, if they do, ensuring there are enough safe and nurturing homes
Happy Baby Community	FY2025	£45k	Training of women with lived experience to be peer mentors to other mothers
Celcis	FY2025	£30k	Strengthening evidence-based policy and practice in children’s social care through research, training and sector leadership
Early Years Wales	FY2025	£25k	Improving outcomes for young children by strengthening early years services, workforce skills and family support across Wales
FACES	FY2025	£25k	Providing targeted family support to help parents improve home learning, wellbeing and relationships with schools
Family Gateway	FY2025	£25k	Connecting families to coordinated early help services, advice and practical support to reduce crisis and improve stability
Homestart Birmingham	FY2025	£25k	Offering volunteer-led home-visiting and group support to parents with young children experiencing isolation, stress or financial pressure
Institute of Health Visiting	FY2025	£25k	Developing the health visiting workforce and promoting best practice to improve infant health, parental wellbeing and early development
KIND Liverpool	FY2025	£25k	Reducing school absence and improving attainment by engaging young people through sailing and water-based learning experiences
Magpie Project	FY2025	£25k	Providing safe play, creative activities and practical support for mothers and children facing homelessness and severe poverty
Parents 1st	FY2025	£25k	Building parental confidence and skills through evidence-based early years and home-learning programmes in partnership with schools and nurseries
Pure Insight	FY2025	£25k	Supporting care-experienced young parents and care leavers through mentoring, peer groups and practical help to reduce isolation and improve stability
Rees Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Creating welcoming community spaces and practical support for care-experienced people through cafés, peer networks and crisis assistance
Sebby’s Corner	FY2025	£25k	Delivering essential baby supplies, family support and crisis help to parents facing financial hardship and social isolation
Settle	FY2025	£25k	Supporting refugee and migrant families with perinatal mental health support, practical assistance and community integration
Skills Builder	FY2025	£25k	Embedding essential skills development in education and youth programmes to improve long-term employability and life outcomes
SNAPS (Special Need and Parent Support)	FY2025	£25k	Empowering parents of children with additional needs through peer support, information and advocacy
The Children’s Foundation	FY2025	£25k	Funding grassroots projects that improve children’s health, wellbeing and access to opportunities across the North East
The Foundation Years Trust	FY2025	£25k	Strengthening early childhood services and family learning to improve outcomes for children before they start school
Kids Matter	FY2025	£25k	Equipping churches and community organisations to deliver parenting programmes that tackle isolation, improve mental health and strengthen family resilience
The Mighty Creatives	FY2025	£25k	Using creative mentoring to support children’s emotional wellbeing and confidence, particularly those facing trauma or exclusion
Voices from Care Cymru	FY2025	£25k	Amplifying the voices of care-experienced young people and supporting organisations to embed youth participation in decision-making
Who Cares Scotland	FY2025	£25k	Championing the rights and wellbeing of care-experienced people through advocacy, participation and systemic reform
Kent Refugee Action	FY2025	£25k	Supporting refugees and asylum seekers with advocacy, integration services and opportunities to share their stories and build community
25@25	FY2025	£25k	North East
25@25	FY2025	£25k	South West
Community Learning Partnership	FY2025	£25k	Delivering early learning and family support programmes that strengthen school readiness and parental engagement in disadvantaged communities
Early Years Scotland	FY2025	£25k	Supporting families and early years practitioners to improve young children’s development through programmes such as HENRY and community-based parenting support
The Difference	FY2024	£300k	Inclusion: supports mainstream school leaders to reduce pupil exclusions
Now Foster	FY2024	£300k	Innovations in fostering recruitment and retention
Family Rights Group	FY2024	£225k	Lifelong Links for London care leavers to build connections and networks of support
Juno	FY2024	£175k	New models of residential children’s homes in the Liverpool city region
Fifty Things to do before you’re five	FY2024	£150k	Evaluation and building evidence for the ’50 things’ approach
Childhood Trust	FY2024	£92k	Researching the impact of AI enabled toys on Under 5s
Think Equal	FY2024	£75k	Social and emotional learning; fostering equity amongst 3 to 6 year olds
Dartington Service Design Lab	FY2024	£70k	A collaborative initiative to develop common outcomes for all children
Thrive at Five	FY2023	£150k
Kinship - (Grandparents Plus)	FY2023	£100k
Fostering Network (Step Up Step Down, Wales)	FY2023	£100k
Juno	FY2023	£100k
Lucy Faithfull Foundation	FY2023	£100k	tackling harmful sexual behaviour in schools
Cohen Trust (Seen Heard Believed)	FY2023	£95k	Trauma informed approaches to supporting families (Seen Heard Believed) (grant extension)
WILD young parents	FY2023	£75k
The Village	FY2023	£70k	A digital community for new parents and parents-to-be, with experience of care
Anna Freud Centre	FY2023	£60k	Better support for foster carers – the Reflective Fostering Programme (grant extension)
Sister System	FY2023	£50k	Empowering care experienced girls & young women – bridging the gap
Cohen Trust (Seen Heard Believed)	FY2023	£50k
Education Policy Institute (EPI)	FY2023	£40k	Researching Food Poverty in the Under 5’s
Family Rights Group - core funding	FY2023	£38k
Happy Baby Community	FY2023	£30k	Building evidence to better support some of the most vulnerable pregnant women, and new mums of 0-3’s meet key development milestones
Project Change	FY2023	£25k	Supporting Scotland’s ‘think and do tank’ led by care experienced people
Buttle UK	FY2023	£25k
Thrive at Five**	FY2023	£15k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Fostering Network Research project	FY2023	£13k	Foster Carer Recruitment and Retention – Best Practice Toolkit (for Fostering Services)
Fostering Network**	FY2023	£10k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Juno**	FY2023	£10k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Lucy Faithfull Foundation**	FY2023	£10k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Cohen Trust**	FY2023	£10k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Kinship**	FY2023	£8k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
WILD young parents**	FY2023	£8k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Fostering Network - Retention and Diversity toolkit	FY2023	£6k
Care experienced movement (CEM)	FY2023	£5k
Buttle UK**	FY2023	£3k	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Care experienced movement**	FY2023	£500	one-off payments made to support our charity partners through the challenging economic climate
Thrive at Five	FY2022	£150k
The Fostering Network	FY2022	£100k	Step Up Step Down, Wales
Lucy Faithfull Foundation	FY2022	£100k
Juno	FY2022	£100k
Kinship	FY2022	£75k
WILD Young Parents	FY2022	£75k
The Fostering Network	FY2022	£50k	Research project
Buttle UK	FY2022	£50k	special initiative grant
Anna Freud Centre for children and families	FY2022	£50k	reflective fostering
Cohen Trust	FY2022	£45k
Family Rights Group	FY2022	£38k	core funding
University of Oxford	FY2022	£28k
Care experienced movement	FY2022	£20k
Oxford University ECC Evaluation	FY2022	£19k	restricted funds

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 995250 vs reference 1582250 (37.1% 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.