Grant funders

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Research council, England

Also known as STFC

United Kingdom
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Given in 2025 £115.9m
Typical grant £476k Middle half £199k to £671k
New grantees in 2025 7% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

7% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 93% 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

South East 741 grants · typical £230k
London 693 grants · typical £205k
North West 673 grants · typical £190k
Scotland 562 grants · typical £281k
East of England 348 grants · typical £318k
Yorkshire and The Humber 302 grants · typical £141k
West Midlands 278 grants · typical £203k
North East 208 grants · typical £241k

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

Latest grants made

Northumbria University Why is the response of Earth’s outer radiation belt to solar wind driving so hard to predict? £4.4m 31 Mar 2027
Queen's University Belfast TRANSCEND: Cosmology and astrophysics from a census of the transient Universe £3.9m 31 Mar 2027
University of warwick Volume-complete stellar evolution: the 4MOST spectroscopic footprint within 100 pc of the Sun £381k 30 Nov 2026
Queen Mary University of London Connecting inflationary cosmology to observations on all scales £511k 30 Sep 2026
University of Sussex South East Particle Physics Allicance (SEPTA) £388k 30 Sep 2026
University of St Andrews Unlocking the isotopic evolution of the early Solar System: evidence from chondrules £501k 30 Sep 2026
Imperial college London Data-driven radiometric models enabling the preservation of dark and quiet skies £594k 30 Sep 2026
The Open University Shedding Light On JWST Ice Observations: A Laboratory Approach To Untangling Spectral Signatures £635k 30 Sep 2026
The Open University Origin and Evolution of Water in the Moon and the inner Solar System £733k 30 Sep 2026
University of manchester Galactic scale hot and cool exoplanet demography with Roman and Euclid £529k 30 Sep 2026

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