PURPOSEFUL VENTURES — grant history

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Latest income

£17.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£4.1m

Accounts grants total

£4.1m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Credited as a funder by

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

FIRST UK “Proudly fuelled by Purposeful Ventures partners with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists to improve the education a”
YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS “We also receive financial support from Purposeful Ventures.”
NEW BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION CIO “Earlier this year, Purposeful Ventures announced that they were awarding additional support and funding to three new par”
NOW TEACH “FOUNDING PARTNERS Our thanks go out to Ark Ventures, Purposeful Ventures, Winton Philanthropies, and the Financial Times”

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 (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
Cambridgeshire (1 grantee)
Dorset (1 grantee)
East Riding Of Yorkshire (1 grantee)
Germany (1 grantee)
Hampshire (1 grantee)
Hertfordshire (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Japan (1 grantee)
Kent (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	The Co-operative Academies Trust	—	£480k
new	SHiFT	—	£447k
new	LITTLE VILLAGE	—	£360k
new	United Church Schools in Trust	—	£360k
new	FIRST UK	—	£335k
new	University of Oxford COMPOS	—	£270k
new	CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	—	£250k
new	Global Talent Fund	—	£240k
not listed	Other grants (individually not material)	£3.1m	—
not listed	United Church Schools Trust	£520k	—
not listed	Global Talent Network	£472k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Co-operative Academies Trust	FY2025	£480k	Maths Excellence Fund
Dr Frost learning	FY2025	£450k	Maths Excellence Fund
SHiFT	FY2025	£447k	Maths Excellence Fund
Inspiration Trust	FY2025	£380k	Maths Excellence Fund
Little Village	FY2025	£360k	Incubation/Support of Baby Bank Alliance
United Church Schools in Trust	FY2025	£360k	Maths Excellence Fund
Mathematics in Education and Industry	FY2025	£337k	Maths Excellence Fund
First UK	FY2025	£335k	Maths Excellence Fund
University of Oxford COMPOS	FY2025	£270k	Maths Excellence Fund
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra	FY2025	£250k	Music & Arts
Global Talent Fund	FY2025	£240k	Maths Excellence Fund
Renaissance Philanthropy UK	FY2025	£240k	Maths Excellence Fund
Other grants (individually not material)	FY2024	£3.1m	Mixed
Dr Frost Learning	FY2024	£750k	STEM
United Church Schools Trust	FY2024	£520k	STEM
Mathematics in Education and Industry	FY2024	£490k	STEM
Global Talent Network	FY2024	£472k	STEM
Inspiration Trust	FY2024	£470k	STEM

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 4149000 vs reference 4149000 (0.0% 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.