BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£410.6m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£52.5m

Accounts grants total

£108.4m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted 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).

THE BRITISH ATHEROSCLEROSIS SOCIETY “Kenneth Chan is a Clinical Research Fellow in cardiology supported by the British Heart Foundation.”
THE TICKER CLUB “Affiliated to the British Heart Foundation”
LISTENING EARS “British Heart Foundation”
CARDIOMYOPATHY UK “The CureHeart team were winners of The British Heart Foundation's Big Beat Challenge and were awarded a £30 million rese”
GUJARAT HINDU SOCIETY, PRESTON “GHS Bhajan Sammelan Raises Over £5,000 for the British Heart Foundation”

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 (5 grantees)
Education/training (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Cardiff (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	OUR FUTURE HEALTH	—	£5.0m
new	THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED	—	£3.2m
new	University of Sheffield	—	£1.4m
new	Welsh Government	—	£1.0m
new	University of Aberdeen	—	£600k
new	Queen Mary University	—	£500k
down	University of Oxford	£16.9m	£5.0m
down	University of Edinburgh	£8.6m	£2.9m
down	University of Cambridge	£11.4m	£2.7m
up	University of Glasgow	£1.1m	£2.1m
down	University of Leicester	£5.7m	£2.1m
up	University of Reading	£700k	£1.5m
down	University of Bristol	£2.6m	£800k
down	University of Leeds	£2.3m	£500k
not listed	UK Dementia Research Institute	£7.5m	—
not listed	Queen Mary, University of London	£2.1m	—
not listed	University of Dundee	£1.3m	—
not listed	University of Warwick	£800k	—
not listed	St George’s, University of London	£700k	—
not listed	Medical Research Council	£400k	—
not listed	ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES	£100k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Imperial College	FY2025	£8.1m	Research
University College London	FY2025	£5.3m	Research
University of Oxford	FY2025	£5.0m	Research
Our Future Health	FY2025	£5.0m	Research
University of Manchester	FY2025	£4.3m	Research
King’s College London	FY2025	£4.0m	Research
The Francis Crick Institute	FY2025	£3.2m	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£2.9m	Research
University of Cambridge	FY2025	£2.7m	Research
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£2.1m	Research
University of Leicester	FY2025	£2.1m	Research
University of Reading	FY2025	£1.5m	Research
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£1.4m	Research
Welsh Government	FY2025	£1.0m	Research
University of Bristol	FY2025	£800k	Research
Newcastle University	FY2025	£800k	Research
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£700k	Research
University of Aberdeen	FY2025	£600k	Research
Queen Mary University	FY2025	£500k	Research
University of Leeds	FY2025	£500k	Research
University of Oxford	FY2024	£16.9m	Related Party Transaction (Trustee Wendy Becker)
University of Cambridge	FY2024	£11.4m	Research
University of Oxford	FY2024	£10.4m	Research
Imperial College	FY2024	£9.4m	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£8.6m	Research
UK Dementia Research Institute	FY2024	£7.5m	Research
University of Leicester	FY2024	£5.7m	Research
University College London	FY2024	£5.3m	Related Party Transaction (Trustee David Lomas)
King’s College London	FY2024	£4.9m	Research
University College London	FY2024	£4.3m	Research
University of Manchester	FY2024	£4.0m	Research
University of Bristol	FY2024	£2.6m	Research
University of Leeds	FY2024	£2.3m	Research
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2024	£2.1m	Research
Newcastle University	FY2024	£1.4m	Related Party Transaction (Trustee Brian Walker)
University of Dundee	FY2024	£1.3m	Research
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£1.1m	Research
University of Warwick	FY2024	£800k	Healthcare Innovation
St George’s, University of London	FY2024	£700k	Research
University of Reading	FY2024	£700k	Research
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£500k	Research
Medical Research Council	FY2024	£400k	Related Party Transaction (Trustee Jill Pell / Munir Pirmohamed)
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2024	£100k	Related Party Transaction (Trustee Sadaf Farooqi)
Fellowships	FY2023	£32.7m	Research fellowships
CureHeart	FY2023	£30.0m	Global team working on the first cures for inherited heart muscle diseases (winner of Big Beat Challenge)
Project Grants	FY2023	£15.3m	Research project grants
Programme Grants	FY2023	£7.6m	Range of research projects
Clinical Studies	FY2023	£7.5m	Clinical studies
Special Projects	FY2023	£6.0m	Range of research projects
BHF-DZHK-DHF International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Awards	FY2023	£5.0m	Collaborative projects involving research teams in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	FY2023	£3.7m	Funding to support 37 researchers in early stages of their careers (Clinical Research Training Fellows)
Translational Awards	FY2023	£1.2m	Expected payments to completion of future milestones
Costed Extensions	FY2023	£200k	Grant extensions due to Covid-19 disruption
Other grants paid to institutions	FY2022	£31.5m	Research
University of Oxford	FY2022	£9.8m	Research
Imperial College London	FY2022	£5.8m	Research
University College London	FY2022	£4.2m	Research
King’s College London	FY2022	£3.8m	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2022	£3.5m	Research
University of Cambridge	FY2022	£2.7m	Research
University of Manchester	FY2022	£2.3m	Research
British Cardiovascular Society	FY2022	£1.7m	Research
University of Leeds	FY2022	£1.4m	Research
University of Bristol	FY2022	£1.4m	Research
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2022	£1.0m	Research
Cardiff University	FY2022	£700k	Research
University of Strathclyde	FY2022	£700k	Research
University of Nottingham	FY2022	£500k	Research
The Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2022	£500k	Research
University of Leicester	FY2022	£400k	Research
University of Glasgow	FY2022	£400k	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 52500000 vs reference 108400000 (51.6% 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.