Grant Funder Intelligence

Annual intelligence report · data extracted 2026-11-14

Where US foundations give to UK causes

This report reads the most recent IRS Form 990-PF filings of every US private foundation and extracts the grants they make to UK recipients, then matches grantee names against the UK charity register. It is built for UK charities deciding where US fundraising is worth the effort.

3,141 UK-recipient grants
713 US funders
$1.016bn total UK-directed
56.3% grantees matched to a UK charity number

The UK-directed total is the sum of itemised grant lines only — 62.9% of filings itemise recipients; foundation totals are larger.

The funders

All 713 US foundations that gave to UK recipients — searchable, sortable, with totals, grant counts and mission-relevance flags.

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The grants

Every UK-recipient grant line with amount, purpose and its filing as the source of record.

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Prospect pack

A tiered shortlist built from evidenced giving — who to approach now, who to build toward, and who to drop.

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Largest UK-directed funders

GATES FOUNDATION $304,235,109
FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY $77,300,352
THE LARRY ELLISON FOUNDATION $69,962,501
GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION $41,686,835
THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION IN $39,960,856
THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FO $30,908,980
SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION $18,705,000
THE FORD FOUNDATION $17,011,582

Where the rest of the money goes

The corpus captures 21,450 foreign-recipient grant records across 198 countries. The ten largest overseas recipient countries outside the US and UK:

Canada 2,262India 1,174Iceland 1,049Kenya 859Finland 669Gambia 642Mexico 590France 536Eswatini 507Brazil 486