WELLCOME TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 210183 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£589.5m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£2k

Accounts grants total

£1k

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (4 grantees)
Education/training (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Benin (1 grantee)
Botswana (1 grantee)
Brazil (1 grantee)
Cambodia (1 grantee)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Cameroon (1 grantee)
Belgium (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University of Oxford	FY2025	£239	Wellcome Leap
University of Oxford	FY2025	£191	Discovery Research
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£128	Wellcome Leap
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£120	Discovery Research
The Health Data Research Service	FY2025	£100	Discovery Research
The Health Data Research Service	FY2025	£100	Wellcome Leap
The Health Data Research Service	FY2025	£100	Wellcome Leap
University College London	FY2025	£80	Wellcome Leap
University College London	FY2025	£76	Discovery Research
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£56	Wellcome Leap
Boston University, USA	FY2025	£45	Wellcome Leap
Boston University, USA	FY2025	£45	Infectious Disease
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£44	Discovery Research
King’s College London	FY2025	£37	Wellcome Leap
Imperial College London	FY2025	£31	Wellcome Leap
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£28	Wellcome Leap
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2025	£27	Discovery Research
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2025	£27	Wellcome Leap
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£27	Wellcome Leap
University of Manchester	FY2025	£23	Wellcome Leap
University of Manchester	FY2025	£22	Discovery Research
King’s College London	FY2025	£22	Discovery Research
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£22	Discovery Research
Imperial College London	FY2025	£21	Discovery Research
University of Exeter	FY2025	£21	Wellcome Leap
University of Exeter	FY2025	£21	Discovery Research
University of Oxford	FY2025	£20	Infectious Disease
University of Dundee	FY2025	£20	Wellcome Leap
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2025	£19	Wellcome Leap
The Francis Crick Institute	FY2025	£19	Discovery Research
The Francis Crick Institute	FY2025	£19	Wellcome Leap
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£18	Wellcome Leap
University of Oxford	FY2025	£17	Mental Health
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£16	Wellcome Leap
Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya	FY2025	£15	Wellcome Leap
PATH, USA	FY2025	£14	Wellcome Leap
Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya	FY2025	£14	Discovery Research
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£14	Wellcome Leap
King’s College London	FY2025	£14	Mental Health
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£13	Discovery Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£10	Mental Health
University of Dundee	FY2025	£10	Infectious Disease
PATH, USA	FY2025	£10	Discovery Research
University of Dundee	FY2025	£10	Discovery Research
Imperial College London	FY2025	£9	Infectious Disease
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£8	Infectious Disease
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£8	Infectious Disease
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£8	Discovery Research
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£8	Infectious Disease
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£7	Discovery Research
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2025	£6	Infectious Disease
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£5	Infectious Disease
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2025	£5	Discovery Research
PATH, USA	FY2025	£5	Climate and Health
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2025	£4	Mental Health
University College London	FY2025	£4	Mental Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£3	Climate and Health
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£3	Climate and Health
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£3	Climate and Health
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£3	Climate and Health
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£2	Climate and Health
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£2	Mental Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	FY2025	£2	Infectious Disease
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£1	Infectious Disease
Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya	FY2025	£1	Infectious Disease
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2025	£0	Climate and Health
University College London	FY2025	£0	Infectious Disease
University of Oxford	FY2024	£125.6m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease, Cross-mission, Mental Health
University College London	FY2024	£70.5m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease, Cross-mission, Mental Health
King's College London	FY2024	£50.9m	Discovery Research, Cross-mission, Mental Health
European Bioinformatics Institute	FY2024	£48.5m	Discovery Research
Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, India	FY2024	£47.5m	Discovery Research
Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization, Thailand	FY2024	£46.1m	Discovery Research
University of Cambridge	FY2024	£43.2m	Discovery Research, Cross-mission, Mental Health
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£39.2m	Discovery Research, Cross-mission, Mental Health
UK Biobank Ltd	FY2024	£30.1m	Discovery Research
University of Dundee	FY2024	£29.0m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease
World Health Organization, Switzerland	FY2024	£26.9m	Infectious Disease, Cross-mission, Mental Health
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£22.3m	Discovery Research
Boston University, USA	FY2024	£21.7m	Infectious Disease
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	FY2024	£21.3m	Discovery Research
University of Bristol	FY2024	£17.0m	Discovery Research, Cross-mission, Mental Health
Imperial College London	FY2024	£15.7m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease, Cross-mission, Mental Health
University of Sheffield	FY2024	£15.0m	Discovery Research
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	FY2024	£13.9m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany	FY2024	£13.3m	Cross-mission
University of Cape Town, South Africa	FY2024	£12.2m	Discovery Research, Infectious Disease, Cross-mission
Diamond Light Source Ltd	FY2024	£12.0m	Discovery Research

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 2017 vs reference 1407 (43.4% 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.