Grant funders

Wolfson Foundation

Private foundation, England

Also known as WF

United Kingdom

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Given in 2025 £35.9m
Typical grant £80k Middle half £52k to £150k
New grantees in 2025 77% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

77% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 15% 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 543 grants · typical £100k
South East 325 grants · typical £56k
Scotland 220 grants · typical £50k
South West 217 grants · typical £50k
East of England 195 grants · typical £50k
North West 185 grants · typical £50k
Yorkshire and The Humber 172 grants · typical £59k
West Midlands 171 grants · typical £50k

Top local authority areas

Westminster 99 grants · typical £200k
Camden 96 grants · typical £249k
Birmingham 55 grants · typical £91k
Oxford 53 grants · typical £153k
City of Edinburgh 45 grants · typical £60k
Glasgow City 43 grants · typical £65k
Islington 42 grants · typical £78k
Cambridge 36 grants · typical £175k
County Durham 33 grants · typical £75k
Lambeth 32 grants · typical £85k

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

Latest grants made

Wirral Hospice St John's Grant to Wirral Hospice St John's £60k 10 Jun 2026
Greenhouse Sports Grant to Greenhouse Sports £70k 10 Jun 2026
Royal College of Physicians Grant to Royal College of Physicians £230k 10 Jun 2026
Dorothy House Hospice Care (t/a Dorothy House) Grant to Dorothy House Hospice Care (t/a Dorothy House) £60k 10 Jun 2026
Willen Hospice Grant to Willen Hospice £75k 10 Jun 2026
Wolfson College, Oxford Grant to Wolfson College, Oxford £500k 10 Jun 2026
Gloucester Cathedral Grant to Gloucester Cathedral £250k 10 Jun 2026
University college London Grant to University College London £342k 10 Jun 2026
Manchester Care and Repair Grant to Manchester Care and Repair £90k 10 Jun 2026
John innes centre Grant to John Innes Centre £1.6m 10 Jun 2026

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)); Wolfson Foundation, via 360Giving GrantNav