THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY — grant history

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Latest income
£26.2m
Grants listed (FY2025)
17
Listed grants total
£15.6m
Accounts grants total
£14.0m

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

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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
Where grantees operate
  • Algeria (1 grantee)
  • Angola (1 grantee)
  • Argentina (1 grantee)
  • Armenia (1 grantee)
  • Australia (1 grantee)
  • Austria (1 grantee)
  • Azerbaijan (1 grantee)
  • Bahrain (1 grantee)
  • Bangladesh (1 grantee)
  • Albania (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → 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.

ChangeGranteeFY2022FY2025
newUnited Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Middle East)—£4.5m
newUNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION—£4.0m
newPrisons, immigration centres, colleges (via Bibles to prisons, immigration centres, colleges)—£1.7m
newUnited Bible Societies (via UBS grants to China)—£1.2m
newOther national grant recipients—£1.0m
newUnited Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Other translation projects)—£345k
newUnited Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Other advocacy grants)—£294k
newUnited Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Africa)—£222k
upCambridge University Library£41k£87k
not listedOther advocacy grants£1.1m—
not listedAfrica£721k—
not listedOther production & distribution grants£553k—
not listedChina£450k—
not listedMiddle East£368k—
not listedOther translation projects£152k—
not listedOther national grants£76k—
not listedOther literacy projects£30k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Middle East)FY2025£4.5mLiteracy grants - Middle East
United Bible SocietiesFY2025£4.0mTotal capacity building grants
Prisons, immigration centres, colleges (via Bibles to prisons, immigration centres, colleges)FY2025£1.7mNational grants - Bibles to prisons, immigration centres, colleges
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Middle East)FY2025£1.2mEngagement and advocacy grants - Middle East
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to China)FY2025£1.2mEngagement and advocacy grants - China
Other national grant recipientsFY2025£1.0mNational grants - Other national grants
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Other translation projects)FY2025£345kInternational grants - Other translation projects
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Other advocacy grants)FY2025£294kEngagement and advocacy grants - Other advocacy grants
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to China)FY2025£223kCapacity building grants - China
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Africa)FY2025£222kEngagement and advocacy grants - Africa
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Other literacy projects)FY2025£216kLiteracy grants - Other literacy projects
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Africa)FY2025£176kInternational grants - Africa
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Africa)FY2025£139kCapacity building grants - Africa
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Africa)FY2025£106kLiteracy grants - Africa
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to China)FY2025£100kInternational grants - China
Cambridge University LibraryFY2025£87kNational grants
United Bible Societies (via UBS grants to Middle East)FY2025£69kInternational grants - Middle East
Other advocacy grantsFY2022£1.1mInternational grants - Advocacy
AfricaFY2022£721kInternational grants - Advocacy
AfricaFY2022£635kInternational grants - Advocacy
Other production & distribution grantsFY2022£553kInternational grants - Production & Distribution
ChinaFY2022£450kInternational grants - Advocacy
Other advocacy grantsFY2022£412kInternational grants - Advocacy
ChinaFY2022£370kInternational grants - Other
Middle EastFY2022£368kInternational grants - Advocacy
ChinaFY2022£337kInternational grants - Other
ChinaFY2022£332kInternational grants - Advocacy
AfricaFY2022£331kInternational grants - Translation
Middle EastFY2022£299kInternational grants - Advocacy
AfricaFY2022£246kInternational grants - Capacity building
AfricaFY2022£162kInternational grants - Capacity building
Other translation projectsFY2022£152kInternational grants - Translation
Middle EastFY2022£143kInternational grants - Other
AfricaFY2022£128kInternational grants - Translation
Other translation projectsFY2022£123kInternational grants - Translation
Middle EastFY2022£119kInternational grants - Other
ChinaFY2022£118kInternational grants - Translation
Middle EastFY2022£108kInternational grants - Capacity building
AfricaFY2022£104kInternational grants - Literacy
ChinaFY2022£78kInternational grants - Translation
AfricaFY2022£78kInternational grants - Other
Other national grantsFY2022£76kNational grants
AfricaFY2022£74kInternational grants - Literacy
Other production & distribution grantsFY2022£64kInternational grants - Production & Distribution
Cambridge University LibraryFY2022£41kNational grants
AfricaFY2022£33kInternational grants - Literacy
AfricaFY2022£33kInternational grants - Other
Other literacy projectsFY2022£30kInternational grants - Literacy
Other literacy projectsFY2022£25kInternational grants - Literacy
Bibles to prisons, immigration centres, collegesFY2022£23kNational grants
Middle EastFY2022£21kInternational grants - Translation
Middle EastFY2022£15kInternational grants - Translation
AfricaFY2022£11kInternational grants - Capacity building

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 15605000 vs reference 13966000 (11.7% 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.