THE JEAN SHANKS FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£639k

Grants listed (FY2026)

Listed grants total

£699k

Accounts grants total

£435k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2026 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: FY2024 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2026
new	University of Leeds	—	£223k
new	Student Scholarships through Pathological Society	—	£164k
new	Grand Rounds through Pathological Society	—	£25k
new	University of Oxford	—	£5k
new	National Academic Residents' Network Meeting through Pathological Society	—	£2k
new	Institute of Cancer Research	—	£2k
up	University of Southampton	£33k	£147k
down	University College London	£419k	£99k
down	University of Glasgow	£7k	£1k
not listed	University of Sheffield	£240k	—
not listed	University of Edinburgh	£117k	—
not listed	Student Scholarships	£62k	—
not listed	University of Nottingham	£60k	—
not listed	Ground Rounds	£25k	—
not listed	Cancer Institutes	£22k	—
not listed	Queen Mary University of London	£750	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
University of Leeds	FY2026	£223k
Student Scholarships through Pathological Society	FY2026	£164k
University of Southampton	FY2026	£147k
University College London	FY2026	£99k
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2026	£30k
Grand Rounds through Pathological Society	FY2026	£25k
University of Oxford	FY2026	£5k
National Academic Residents' Network Meeting through Pathological Society	FY2026	£2k
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2026	£2k
University of Glasgow	FY2026	£1k
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	amount not stated
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
Student Scholarships	FY2023	amount not stated
Leeds Institute of Medical Research	FY2023	amount not stated
Other	FY2023	amount not stated
Queen Mary University of London	FY2023	amount not stated
University of Surrey	FY2023	amount not stated
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	amount not stated
Leeds Institute of Medical Research	FY2022	amount not stated

8 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

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 698578 vs reference 435424 (60.4% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].