THE JEAN SHANKS FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£609k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£1.0m

Accounts grants total

£1.0m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: All grants and bursaries are made at the discretion of the Trustees of the Jean Shanks Foundation.
What they don’t fund: No grants will be made for financial hardship or any project not having a significant pathology research content.

Summarised from www.jeanshanksfoundation.org · www.jeanshanksfoundation.org/grants.html · www.jeanshanksfoundation.org/grants.html on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

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

THE EDWARD SHOWLER FOUNDATION “catalysing additional investment from Sarcoma UK, The Jean Shanks Foundation, Transcend Sarcoma and others”

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	University of Southampton	—	£33k
new	ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES	—	£25k
new	Ground Rounds	—	£25k
new	University of Oxford	—	£0
up	University College London	£25k	£419k
up	University of Nottingham	£9k	£60k
down	Cancer Institutes	£125k	£22k
down	University of Glasgow	£50k	£7k
not listed	Medical Research Council	£15k	—
not listed	Academy of Medical Science	£2k	—
not listed	University of Surrey	£0	—
not listed	Leeds Institute of Medical Research	£0	—
not listed	Other	£0	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
University College London	FY2024	£419k
University of Sheffield	FY2024	£240k
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£117k
Student Scholarships	FY2024	£62k
University of Nottingham	FY2024	£60k
University of Southampton	FY2024	£33k
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2024	£25k
Ground Rounds	FY2024	£25k
Cancer Institutes	FY2024	£22k
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£7k
Queen Mary University of London	FY2024	£750
University of Oxford	FY2024	£0
University of Sheffield	FY2023	£165k
University of Edinburgh	FY2023	£146k
Cancer Institutes	FY2023	£125k
University of Glasgow	FY2023	£50k
University College London	FY2023	£25k
Medical Research Council	FY2023	£15k
University of Nottingham	FY2023	£9k
Academy of Medical Science	FY2023	£2k
Queen Mary University of London	FY2023	£0
University of Surrey	FY2023	£0
Leeds Institute of Medical Research	FY2023	£0
Student Scholarships	FY2023	£0
Other	FY2023	£0
University of Edinburgh	FY2022	£150k
Medical Research Council	FY2022	£100k
University College London	FY2022	£60k
Western General Hospital	FY2022	£50k
University of Nottingham	FY2022	£50k
Academy of Medical Science	FY2022	£25k
Cancer Institutes	FY2022	£20k
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£17k
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire	FY2022	£9k
JSPS Clinical Research Training Fellowship	FY2022	£0
Leeds Institute of Medical Research	FY2022	£0

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 1010125 vs reference 1010125 (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.