Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
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To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Frankfurt Zoological Society
https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
Towards Akhuwat's flood relief work in Pakistan
To provide interest-free micro-loans to rebuild homes and support businesses and agriculture in areas impacted by the floods in Pakistan.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
To digitize items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery, and make them freely available online.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Yaeda Valley project
Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.
$71,280
2022
1 year
Towards the development phase of a new film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
Towards the development phase of a documentary film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
$26,000
2022
1 year
Borderland Foundation core costs
To help Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver its mission to support cross-border cultural and community exchanges.
$100,000
2021
4 years
Towards running costs
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Meeting room upgrade project
To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History.
$73,500
2021
1 year
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jewish deportees to Theresienstadt in 1943-4 into Czech, English, German and Swedish, and make the results freely available online.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Towards the COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund
To support the global response to the COVID-19 crisis.
$500,000
2020
1 year
Towards running costs
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund
To establish a fund to support the filling of three established endowed chairs: the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German History, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History.
$5,000,000
2019
5 years
Towards the second phase of the Illuminated River
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$4,840,000
2019
1 year
Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
For the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed.
$7,000,000
2018
1 year
To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa
To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
Towards the Pauline Yu Fellowship Fund in Chinese or Comparative Literature
To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme in Chinese or Comparative Literature.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History to support work that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the field of medieval history at UCLA.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
An oral history of farming, land management and conservation in post-war Britain
To develop an oral history archive of experiences of the change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after 1945 and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$419,427
2018
4 years
Towards core costs
To support the Council’s work to conduct independent research on European foreign and security policy and provide a safe meeting space for decision-makers, activists and influencers to share ideas.
$256,838
2018
1 year