THE FIREBIRD FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.6m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.1m

Accounts grants total

£982k

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

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 (12 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (7 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (6 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (6 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Disability (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (11 grantees)
Throughout England (4 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Throughout London (3 grantees)
Kenya (2 grantees)
Tanzania (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
The Gambia (1 grantee)
Denmark (1 grantee)
Uganda (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	EVAW	—	£150k
new	WOMEN'S SPORT TRUST	—	£105k
new	LAWRS	—	£90k
new	African women rights association	—	£70k
new	CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN	—	£60k
new	LEVEL UP	—	£60k
new	PACT	—	£60k
new	Agenda Alliance	—	£40k
up	ONE SMALL THING	£50k	£75k
up	PROJECT ORCHID LIMITED	£10k	£70k
up	THE FIVE FOUNDATION LTD	£25k	£70k
down	THE HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM (INCORPORATING THE HOWARD CENTRE FOR PENOLOGY)	£90k	£15k
down	WOMEN IN PRISON LIMITED	£90k	£15k
down	CLEAN BREAK THEATRE COMPANY	£90k	£11k
down	NOT BEYOND REDEMPTION LIMITED	£90k	£10k
down	BIRTH COMPANIONS	£90k	£10k
not listed	RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED	£100k	—
not listed	The Bureau of Investigative Journalism	£60k	—
not listed	Vow for Girls	£50k	—
not listed	Kings College London - Global Institute for Woman's Leadership	£44k	—
not listed	Sistema Scotland	£30k	—
not listed	FURNISHING FUTURES CIO	£25k	—
not listed	Womans Aid	£24k	—
not listed	THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST	£20k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
EVAW	FY2025	£150k	Family Justice and Prevention
Women's Sport Trust	FY2025	£105k	Sport
Lewes FC	FY2025	£100k	Sport
LAWRS	FY2025	£90k	Family Justice and Prevention
One Small Thing	FY2025	£75k	Remand
African women rights association	FY2025	£70k	FGM
Orchid Project	FY2025	£70k	FGM
Five Foundation	FY2025	£70k	FGM
Children Heard and Seen	FY2025	£60k	Parental Imprisonment
Level Up	FY2025	£60k	Family Justice and Prevention
PACT	FY2025	£60k	Parental Imprisonment
Agenda Alliance	FY2025	£40k	Family Justice and Prevention
Fearless Women	FY2025	£36k	Sport
National Portrait Gallery	FY2025	£25k	Other grants
DA Seen	FY2025	£20k	Family Justice and Prevention
Howard League	FY2025	£15k	Remand
Women in Prison	FY2025	£15k	Remand
Clean Break	FY2025	£11k	Remand
Not Beyond Redemption	FY2025	£10k	Remand
Birth Companions	FY2025	£10k	Remand
Prison Reform Trust - CIA and 8 Hrs there and back	FY2025	£10k	Parental Imprisonment
Kings College - GIWL changemakers	FY2025	£8k	FGM
The Three Hijabi's	FY2025	£6k	Sport
Collective Punishment	FY2025	£2k	Parental Imprisonment
Rights of Women	FY2024	£100k	Domestic abuse and children
Lewes FC	FY2024	£100k	Women in sport
Howard League	FY2024	£90k	Gender justice and children
Birth Companions	FY2024	£90k	Gender justice and children
Clean Break	FY2024	£90k	Gender justice and children
Women in Prison	FY2024	£90k	Gender justice and children
Not Beyond Redemption	FY2024	£90k	Gender justice and children
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism	FY2024	£60k	Domestic abuse and children
Vow for Girls	FY2024	£50k	Gender justice and children
One Small Thing	FY2024	£50k	Gender justice and children
Kings College London - Global Institute for Woman's Leadership	FY2024	£44k	Gender justice and children
Fearless Women	FY2024	£36k	Women in sport
Sistema Scotland	FY2024	£30k	Domestic abuse and children
The Five Foundation	FY2024	£25k	Gender justice and children
Furnishing Futures	FY2024	£25k	Domestic abuse and children
Womans Aid	FY2024	£24k	Domestic abuse and children
National Literacy Trust	FY2024	£20k	Other grants
Luminary	FY2024	£20k	Domestic abuse and children
Orchid Project Limited	FY2024	£10k	Gender justice and children
Solace Women's Aid	FY2024	£150	Domestic abuse and children
Other grants of less than £10,000	FY2023	£254k
Safelives	FY2023	£50k	(2 grants)
National Literacy Trust	FY2023	£44k	project
Other grants of less than £10,000	FY2023	£40k
Other grants of less than £10,000	FY2023	£30k
The Five Foundation	FY2023	£30k	(2 grants)
Standing Together	FY2023	£20k	(2 grants)
Orchid Project Limited	FY2023	£20k
Furnishing Futures	FY2023	£10k	for the benefit of The Global Institute for National Literacy Trust project
Refuge	FY2023	£10k	(2 grants)

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 1117890 vs reference 981890 (13.9% 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.