Grant funders

Wellcome Trust

Trust, England

Also known as WT, Wellcome

United Kingdom

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Given in 2025 £1.0bn
Typical grant £1.2m Middle half £366k to £2.7m
New grantees in 2025 35% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

35% of 2025 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 5,266 grants · typical £215k
South East 2,729 grants · typical £223k
Scotland 2,263 grants · typical £196k
East of England 1,879 grants · typical £250k
North West 1,364 grants · typical £157k
South West 950 grants · typical £164k
Yorkshire and The Humber 904 grants · typical £155k
West Midlands 640 grants · typical £160k

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

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)); The Wellcome Trust, via 360Giving GrantNav