THE KPMG FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£1.1m
Grants listed (FY2025)
30
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
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.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Economic/community Development/employment
- General Charitable Purposes
- Disability
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Throughout England
- Northern Ireland
- South Tyneside
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
- Ireland
- Hertfordshire
- Durham
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| 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 |
| Kent Refugee Action | FY2025 | £25k | Supporting refugees and asylum seekers with advocacy, integration services and opportunities to share their stories and build community |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Juno | FY2023 | £100k | |
| Kinship - (Grandparents Plus) | FY2023 | £100k | |
| Fostering Network (Step Up Step Down, Wales) | 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) |
| Cohen Trust (Seen Heard Believed) | FY2023 | £50k | |
| Sister System | FY2023 | £50k | Empowering care experienced girls & young women – bridging the gap |
| 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) |
| Lucy Faithfull Foundation** | 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 |
| Fostering Network** | 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 |