The Directory of Grant Making Trusts to be published in September
Howard Lake | 9 July 2025 | News
The 29th edition of the UK’s “best-selling guide to funding from grant-making charities” will be published in September, and can be pre-ordered now.
The directory, published by the Directory of Social Change, provides information on the sources of around £8.9 billion in funding available from over 2,000 funders listed in the book. This sum represents a £1.99 billion increase on the last edition.
Each of the funders featured has the potential to give at least £50,000 per year.
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The directory helps fundraisers save time on finding funding prospects and target just those grantmakers which are relevant to their charity. It can also reveal new or changed funders that they were not aware of. Indeed, this edition includes 142 grantmaking trusts are are “completely new” to the Directory.
The 29th edition features:
- concise information, contact details (including social media accounts where available) on each grantmaker
- total amounts of funding available from each grantmaker
- examples of beneficiaries in each listing, in order to help fundraisers understand what kinds of projects were recently funded
- details from the grantmakers about which project types can or cannot qualify for funding
It also includes indexes by geographical area, field of interest, type of beneficiary, type of grant and type of organisation.
This edition was edited by Kalli Jayasuriya, who is part of the research team, having joined DSC in 2023.
The Directory of Grant Making Trusts will be published in hardback in September 2025, running to about 776 pages. It is available for pre-order from DSC for £135.
The Directory of Social Change publishes other books on funding including:
From the horse’s mouth
As an example of some of the remarkably broad range of grantmaking trusts’ interests, here’s DSC’s LinkedIn announcement featuring a trust that gives to… “equine dental equipment”!
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.