Grant funders

Pears Foundation

Private foundation, England

Also known as Pears Family Charitable Foundation

United Kingdom

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Given in 2023 £5.1m
Typical grant £95k Middle half £46k to £245k
New grantees in 2023 22% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

22% of 2023 grantees were new to this funder 54% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 451 grants · typical £50k
South East 33 grants · typical £90k
Yorkshire and The Humber 31 grants · typical £65k
South West 28 grants · typical £50k
East Midlands 19 grants · typical £200k
East of England 13 grants · typical £72k
North West 12 grants · typical £80k
Wales 5 grants · typical £79k

Top local authority areas

Camden 129 grants · typical £53k
Barnet 81 grants · typical £40k
Westminster 47 grants · typical £30k
Islington 43 grants · typical £90k
Lambeth 35 grants · typical £75k
Southwark 20 grants · typical £100k
Wiltshire 17 grants · typical £31k
Tower Hamlets 15 grants · typical £100k
Bradford 15 grants · typical £59k
Hackney 12 grants · typical £35k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Leeds Community Foundation Pears Youth Fund 2023-25 £300k 27 Mar 2023
University college London Let's Talk about Antisemitism Project £44k 27 Mar 2023
360Giving Core Funding £60k 27 Mar 2023
The Board of Deputies of British Jews Funding for the National Yom HaShoah Holocaust memorial ceremony £5,000 27 Mar 2023
Streetgames UK Fit and Fed 2023 and 2024 £262k 10 Mar 2023
Anna Freud Core Funding £300k 10 Mar 2023
Centre for Research in Autism and Education Public engagement and outreach £253k 10 Mar 2023
Autism Initiatives Core funding for Autism Alliance £90k 10 Mar 2023
Eden Project Campaigns Ltd Core Funding £55k 10 Mar 2023

Data: Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales register of charities, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. (Open Government Licence v3.0); Contains grants data published by UK grantmakers via 360Giving GrantNav. Each award names its publisher and licence. (CC BY 4.0, OGL v3.0 or CC0 1.0, as published by each funder (CC BY-SA data excluded)); Pears Foundation, via 360Giving GrantNav (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)